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In a hard-fought battle, Nigel Alsop, John Bakovic, and Rob Adams were ina 3-way tie for first place with a fine score of 780, nosing out a coupleof 770's. These three win a free 1-year subscription to GammOnLine (I mayrun out of paying subscribers at this rate!), and will be invited to beon next month's expert panel.

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

PanelistsSteve Clark                                770Achim Mueller                              770Snowie                                     760Chuck Bower                                750Bob Stringer                               750Hal Heinrich                               740Casper van der Tak                         730Kit Woolsey                                720Marty Storer                               710George Klitsas                             700Chris Yep                                  680Rob Maier                                  670ReadersNigel Alsop                         780 John Bakovic                               780 Rob Adams                                  780 Kevin McGrath                              770 Achim Mueller                              770 Michael Howard                             750 ARAdams                                    750 Stuart Mann                                740 David Wetzell                              740 Eleni Chambers                             740 Alan Alsop                                 720 Wolfgang Goetschmann                       720 mjr                                        710 Serge Rived                                710 Morris Pearl                               710 Doug Roberts                               710 mau                                        710 William Bitting                            700 PW Jackson                                 700 Dorn Bishop                                700 Gregg Cattanach                            690 Hannu Lyyjynen                             680 Michael Jourdan                            670 Jeffrey Beaty                              670 Jordan Lampe                               660 Bill Papa                                  660 Ron Karr                                   660 TarHeelFan                                 660 Edward Hoskins                             660 Wee-Tiong Quah                             650 Dennis Culpepper                           650 Tony_Moutzouris                            650 Jon Larsson                                640 Shane Williamson                           640 Thaddeus Bright                            640 John Marttila                              640 Steve Wood                                 630 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           630 Frank Frigo                                630 Michael Sommerville                        630 Fotis Koutsofoteinos                       630 William Minser                             630 Robin Swaffield                            620 PeterO                                     620 Neil Roseman                               620 Mike Shuster                               620 Baldo Jerkovic                             620 David Berry                                610 Julie Vosika                               610 Jack Carter                                610 Adrian Jones                               610 Dennis Christensen                         610 Ed Maslansky                               600 Gary Lucchesi                              600 Thomas Bovenzi                             590 Anders Sorensen                            590 Charles Chambers                           590 Eliot Katz                                 590 Mark Driver                                580 Ian Todd                                   580 Julian Minwalla                            580 Jim Allen                                  570 bpiland                                    570 rkg                                        560 Peter Bennet                               560 Robert Anderegg                            560 Michael Kittel                             550 Lise Howard                                550 Alfred Mamlet                              550 nelson_huey                                540 Martin Toudal                              530 Bud McCullen                               500 marty                                      490 Mads Madsen                                480 

The race tightens up a bit, as both Achim Mueller and John Bakovic gainground of Alan Alsop. And watch out, another Alsop (Nigel) is on theirheels in case the leaders falter. We are only at the halfway mark, sothere are still plenty of contenders in the cumulative contest.

Cumulative scores over 6 monthsAlan Alsop                                 4390 Achim Mueller                              4360 John Bakovic                               4250 Nigel Alsop                                4190 Kevin McGrath                              4120 Stuart Mann                                4100 Serge Rived                                4100 mjr                                        4080 mau                                        4040 Doug Roberts                               4020 Hannu Lyyjynen                             4000 Michael Howard                             3980 Wolfgang Goetschmann                       3980 TarHeelFan                                 3980 John Marttila                              3910 Ed Maslansky                               3910 Jim Allen                                  3910 David Wetzell                              3850 Peter Bennet                               3830 Rob Adams                                  3810 Gregg Cattanach                            3770 Eliot Katz                                 3760 PW Jackson                                 3750 Mads Madsen                                3730 Gary Lucchesi                              3670 Mark Driver                                3670 Jordan Lampe                               3650 PeterO                                     3640 rkg                                        3600 Bill Papa                                  3600 Fotis Koutsofoteinos                       3570 nelson_huey                                3570 Robin Swaffield                            3570 Edward Hoskins                             3540 Ian Todd                                   3460 Charles Chambers                           3280 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 B/23, 8/7*               33 B/22                     26 B/23, 5/4                10 B/24, 6/4                5 B/24, 5/3                0 problem 2 20/14                    25 9/7, 9/5                 19 6/4, 6/2*                13 8/4, 6/4                 8 9/5, 6/4                 8 9/7, 6/2*                1 problem 3 24/21, 10/8              28 10/8, 6/3*               14 13/11, 13/10             13 6/3*, 3/1*               10 10/5                     8 10/7, 6/4                1 problem 4 23/20, 15/10             29 20/17, 15/10             22 15/7                     21 20/12                    2 20/15, 4/1               0 problem 5 13/8                     39 6/4*, 6/3                27 9/4*                     7 8/6, 8/5                 1 8/3                      0 problem 6 24/22, 5/4(2)*           22 6/4*, 4/2*               20 24/21, 22/21             14 8/7(2), 5/4(2)*          5 24/23, 8/7(3)            5 24/22, 6/4*              4 24/23, 22/21, 5/4(2)*    4 8/6, 5/4(2)*             0 problem 7 24/18, 11/8              40 24/18, 9/6               19 24/21, 11/5              9 24/15                    3 24/18, 13/10             2 11/5, 9/6                1 24/21, 24/18             0 problem 8 6/3*                     31 20/18, 6/5               27 8/5                      10 9/7, 8/7                 6 6/5, 6/4                 0 8/7, 6/4                 0 

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