return to solutionsAs we start off the new year, Douglas Gitlin wins a narrow victory overPetter Bengtsson with a fine score of 780. Several other readers werein the mid 700's on an interesting set of problems. Douglas wins a freeone-year subscription to GammOnLine, and he is invited to join our expertpanel this month.
Below is a list of the scores of the panelists and readers, andthe cumulative votes of the readers for each problem.
PanelistsDoug Doub 780Neil Kazaross 770Marty Storer 740George Klitsas 720Alan Alsop 710Chuck Bower 700Snowie 700Kit Woolsey 700Bob Stringer 690Ian Dunstan 680Chris Yep 660ReadersDouglas Gitlin 780 Petter Bengtsson 770 Christian Tagsold 760 Mary_Lee Pinkney 760 Nigel Buchan 750 Doug Roberts 750 John Bakovic 740 Achim Mueller 740 Steve Wood 730 Dorn Bishop 730 Ilia Guzei 730 Ned Cross 730 Franck Del_Rio 710 Oystein Johansen 710 Alan Alsop 710 Harald Retter 700 Thomas Cunningham 700 Hisako Sugiura 700 Hannu Lyyjynen 700 Kevin McGrath 690 Tanja Lewis 690 John Little 680 Jordan Lampe 680 Stephan Vaillancourt 680 Ian Dunstan 680 Hansjoerg Lehnherr 680 Dean Gay 680 Jon Larsson 670 Blake Sorem 670 Claes Norreen 670 Michael Nielsen 670 Helle Olsen 660 David Berry 660 mau 660 Kasper Andersen 660 Heimo Krainer 650 Alfred Mamlet 650 Charles Koval 650 Walter Hamm 650 Ronald Tiggelen 650 Barry Murphy 650 Jim Allen 640 Hirohisa Tezuka 640 Bill Papa 640 Louis-Juan Tillet 640 James Cordes 640 Don Heggen 630 David Rogers 630 Charles Chambers 630 rkg 630 Frank Rodolf 630 Peter Pallesen 630 Atsushi Honjo 620 Christian Anthon 620 John Moore 620 Strato 620 Alan Messer 610 JP White 610 mjr 610 Douglas Faust 610 Rodney Lighton 610 Peter Shirley 610 Robin Swaffield 600 PeterO 600 Bud McCullen 600 Maurits Pino 600 Mark Kushinsky 600 Eric Walstra 600 nelson_huey 590 Jason Lee 590 Ed Maslansky 590 Eckart Plaul 580 Joe Leis 580 Carsten Simonsen 570 Peter Bennet 570 Farzan Soroushi 570 Bruce Regittko 570 William Bitting 570 Gregg Cattanach 560 Daniel Wittkopp 560 Thomas Bovenzi 560 Wolfgang Goetschmann 550 Robby Theuermann 550 bpiland 550 Aram Gurekian 550 Francois Tissot 550 Richard Willis 550 Cyril Courtial 540 Eliot Katz 540 Stuart Mann 540 Kari Hotakainen 530 Stanley Livingston 530 biddie 520 Courtney Foster 520 Scott Ward 510 Stephen Flanagan 510 Ian Shaw 490 Peter Grotrian 470 Steve Manchester 470 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 13/8, 13/7 47 13/7, 6/1 26 17/11, 13/8 18 13/2 8 problem 2 18/15(3), 16/13 27 16/7, 10/7 26 18/15(2), 16/10 23 16/4 20 18/15(2), 10/7(2) 3 problem 3 21/13 40 21/15, 13/11 29 11/3* 15 21/15, 5/3* 8 24/16 6 24/22, 21/15 1 problem 4 8/6, 8/2 29 23/21, 13/7 21 13/5 15 23/15 14 24/18, 13/11 10 13/11, 13/7 5 24/22, 8/2 3 24/22, 13/7 2 problem 5 13/9, 8/5* 60 13/6 15 21/14 10 21/18, 13/9 9 21/18, 6/2 5 problem 6 15/14, 4/2* 46 18/15 23 4/2*, 2/1 11 6/5, 4/2* 11 15/13, 4/3 6 15/13, 6/5 2 problem 7 11/8, 11/5 44 13/10, 11/5 28 13/4 13 11/5, 8/5 7 13/7, 8/5 7 problem 8 10/4, 6/4 56 20/18(2), 10/8, 6/4 38 20/16(2) 3 13/11(3), 10/8 1 20/18(2), 6/4(2) 1