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Readers Answers

Congratulations to Ian Dunstan whose excellent score of 790 was sufficientto win this month's competition on a fairly difficult set of problems.Tied for second were two names we have often seen among the leaders, AchimMueller and John Bakovic. Ian wins a free 1-year subscription to GammOnLine,and he is invited to be on our expert panel next month.

Below is a list of the scores of the panelists and readers, andthe cumulative votes of the readers for each problem.

PanelistsNeil Kazaross                              780Snowie                                     750George Klitsas                             740Hannu Lyyjynen                             740Marty Storer                               740Bob Stringer                               720Chris Yep                                  710Chuck Bower                                700Kit Woolsey                                640Laila Leonhardt                            630ReadersIan Dunstan                                790 Achim Mueller                              770 John Bakovic                               770 Hisako Sugiura                             760 Thaddeus Bright                            760 Nigel Buchan                               750 Christian Tagsold                          750 Eric Walstra                               740 Doug Roberts                               740 Hannu Lyyjynen                             740Steve Manchester                           730Bruce Regittko                             730 Rodney Lighton                             720 Gregg Cattanach                            720 Eleni Chambers                             720 Hirohisa Tezuka                            720 Jim Allen                                  720 Aram Gurekian                              710 Christian Anthon                           710 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           710 Robby Theuermann                           710 Kevin McGrath                              700 Eliot Katz                                 700 Ian Shaw                                   700 Eckart Plaul                               700 Oystein Johansen                           690 Ilia Guzei                                 690 Cesare Maiellano                           690 Steve Wood                                 690 James Cordes                               680 Walter Hamm                                680 Rob Adams                                  680 Stuart Mann                                670 William Bitting                            670 David Berry                                670 Alef Rosenbaum                             670 rkg                                        670 Carsten Simonsen                           670 Dorn Bishop                                660 Ed Maslansky                               660 Cyril Courtial                             650 Don Heggen                                 650 Bill Papa                                  640 Stanley Livingston                         640 Thomas Bovenzi                             640 Stanley Livingston                         640 mjr                                        640 Atsushi Honjo                              630 Stephan Vaillancourt                       630 Ronald Tiggelen                            630 Louis-Juan Tillet                          620 Igor Schein                                620 Charles Koval                              620 Strato                                     600 Charles Chambers                           600 Courtney Foster                            600 Frode Lindstrom                            590 Maurits Pino                               590 bpiland                                    590 Douglas Faust                              580 Bud McCullen                               580 Franck Del_Rio                             580 Robin Swaffield                            560 Carl Blumenstein                           560 Peter Bennet                               550 nelson_huey                                540 Scott Ward                                 530 Richard Willis                             490 After a full year, Eleni Chambers emerges victorious.  She left her competitiona bit of room with her score of 720 this month, but nobody in contention wasable to produce a big score and catch her.  Elini wins a lifetime subscriptionto GammOnLine, and is invited to join past winners Chris Yep, Bob Stringer, and AlanAlsop on our expert panel.  Second was Mary Lee Pinkney, followed closelyby Hannu Lyyjynen and Ilia Guzei.  Congratulations, Elini.  A new yearlycontest will begin this month.Cumulative scores over 12 monthsEleni Chambers                             8790 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           8760 Hannu Lyyjynen                             8740 Ilia Guzei                                 8720 Nigel Buchan                               8640 Kevin McGrath                              8600 Achim Mueller                              8490 Oystein Johansen                           8380 Gregg Cattanach                            8050 Doug Roberts                               7970 Rob Adams                                  7940 Don Heggen                                 7760 Peter Bennet                               7760 Bill Papa                                  7720 Rodney Lighton                             7690 Dorn Bishop                                7670 Stanley Livingston                         7640 Stuart Mann                                7610 bpiland                                    7590 Jim Allen                                  7580 Douglas Faust                              7470 Bruce Regittko                             7310 Ed Maslansky                               7300 Steve Wood                                 7220 Bud McCullen                               7110 Thomas Bovenzi                             7020 nelson_huey                                7000 Richard Willis                             6630 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 10/7*                    49 8/7*, 7/5                10 24/22, 11/10             7 11/9, 10/9               1 problem 2 7/2, 6/2                 36 13/9, 13/8               11 13/9, 6/1*               10 13/9, 7/2                6 9/5, 7/2                 2 18/9                     2 problem 3 B/23, 20/18, 6/2         20 B/23, 13/9*, 9/7         13 B/23, 13/9*, 6/4         12 B/23, 7/5(2), 6/4        10 B/23, 20/18, 13/9*       5 B/23, 13/11, 13/9*       5 B/23, 6/4, 6/2           2 B/23, 20/18, 7/5(2)      0 problem 4 13/7, 9/7                32 23/21, 8/2*              27 23/21, 13/7              5 21/13                    3 21/15, 13/11             0 23/15                    0 problem 5 9/2*                     47 22/15                    15 13/6                     3 22/21, 13/7              1 13/7, 8/7                1 problem 6 15/8                     27 8/5, 8/4                 26 13/6                     8 13/10, 13/9              4 15/11, 8/5               2 8/1                      0 problem 7 24/21, 13/9              28 8/1*                     17 13/10, 13/9              10 13/6                     7 13/9, 6/3                4 13/9, 8/5                1 problem 8 24/13                    32 24/18, 13/8              20 24/18, 6/1*              12 13/7, 6/1*               2 13/8, 13/7               1 

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