return to solutionsMary Lee Pinkney racked up a perfect 800 to win the monthly contest. Thisis a very impressive feat. Second with 780 was Christian Tagsold, withthe rest of the competition well behind. Mary Lee wins a free one yearsubscription to GammOnLine, and will be invited to join our expert panelnext month.
Below is a list of the scores of the panelists and readers, andthe cumulative votes of the readers for each problem.
PanelistsNeil Kazaross 770Snowie 770Casper van der Tak 740George Klitsas 730Bob Stringer 730Chuck Bower 720Chris Yep 710Marty Storer 680Kit Woolsey 640ReadersMary_Lee Pinkney 800 Christian Tagsold 780 Hisako Sugiura 750 Ilia Guzei 750 John Bakovic 740 Oystein Johansen 740 Achim Mueller 740 Walter Hamm 730 Steve Wood 730 Nigel Buchan 720 Carsten Simonsen 710 Douglas Gitlin 700 Blake Sorem 690 Wayne Preston 690 bpiland 680 Don Heggen 680 Keith Olsen 670 Rodney Lighton 660 William Bitting 660 Ian Dunstan 660 Peter Bennet 660 Bruce Regittko 650 Jordan Lampe 650 Strato 650 Kevin Mittelstadt 650 Jon Larsson 640 Bill Papa 640 Dougas O'Keefe 640 Olivier Baur 640 mjr 640 Kevin McGrath 630 Barry Murphy 630 John Little 630 Gregg Cattanach 620 nelson_huey 620 Daniel Wittkopp 610 mau 610 Eckart Plaul 610 Eric Walstra 600 Robert Anderegg 600 Peter Grotrian 590 Paul Wurmbrand 590 Alfred Mamlet 590 Cyril Courtial 590 Hannu Lyyjynen 590 Chris Benham 590 Stewart Pemberton 580 Christian Anthon 580 Steve Manchester 580 Alan Messer 570 Charles Koval 570 Atsushi Honjo 570 James Cordes 560 Thomas Bovenzi 560 Ronald Tiggelen 560 Richard Willis 550 Maurits Pino 550 Mark Danek 550 Francois Tissot 550 Ed Maslansky 540 PeterO 540 Courtney Foster 540 Claes Norreen 540 Franck Del_Rio 530 Michael Sommerville 530 Robin Swaffield 530 Douglas Faust 530 Peter Shirley 520 NPW 520 Patrick George 520 Doug Roberts 510 JP White 490 Dorn Bishop 480 Hansjoerg Lehnherr 470 Stanley Livingston 470 Stephen Flanagan 470 Charles Chambers 440 At the halfway point Achim Mueller retains a slight lead, but Mary LeePinkney's performance this month vaults her into second place. Closebehind Steve Wood hangs onto third place, with several other contendersin striking distance. It looks like we could have an exciting run downthe backstretch.Cumulative scores over 6 monthsAchim Mueller 4530 Mary_Lee Pinkney 4510 Steve Wood 4490 Christian Tagsold 4430 John Bakovic 4420 Oystein Johansen 4370 Hisako Sugiura 4340 Nigel Buchan 4330 Douglas Gitlin 4320 Ilia Guzei 4240 Blake Sorem 4140 Walter Hamm 4010 Kevin McGrath 3990 Rodney Lighton 3970 Franck Del_Rio 3960 Ian Dunstan 3930 Hannu Lyyjynen 3910 Charles Koval 3780 William Bitting 3780 Bill Papa 3780 Daniel Wittkopp 3770 Don Heggen 3760 Gregg Cattanach 3750 Carsten Simonsen 3740 Doug Roberts 3730 Peter Bennet 3720 Bruce Regittko 3660 Steve Manchester 3590 James Cordes 3580 Thomas Bovenzi 3570 Eric Walstra 3560 Cyril Courtial 3520 Atsushi Honjo 3520 nelson_huey 3480 Alan Messer 3470 PeterO 3470 Charles Chambers 3460 JP White 3450 Stanley Livingston 3420 Richard Willis 3400 Peter Shirley 3370 Ed Maslansky 3300 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 16/14, 7/4 27 16/13, 7/5 25 16/11 14 14/11, 6/4 5 16/13, 6/4 3 14/11, 7/5 2 16/14, 13/10 2 problem 2 24/22, 16/11 44 16/9 16 24/22, 8/3* 15 16/11, 13/11 3 16/14, 8/3* 0 16/11, 8/6 0 problem 3 7/1*, 6/1 42 13/8, 13/7 13 9/3, 8/3 12 24/18, 13/8 6 24/18, 23/18 5 problem 4 24/23, 24/20 21 6/2, 3/2 19 13/9*, 9/8 18 8/3 11 24/20, 3/2 5 24/23, 13/9* 4 problem 5 8/3, 6/3 31 23/20, 18/13 23 23/18, 6/3 14 23/18, 13/10 9 23/20, 13/8 1 problem 6 21/15, 6/3* 19 13/4* 18 15/9, 6/3* 17 21/18, 21/15 15 15/6 7 13/7, 6/3* 2 problem 7 6/1, 5/1 36 22/18, 6/1 17 18/13, 7/3 11 7/3, 6/1 6 18/9 5 18/14, 6/1 3 22/18, 7/2 0 18/13, 5/1 0 problem 8 8/4*, 4/3 61 8/4*, 6/5 6 9/4* 6 13/8 4 9/8, 6/2* 1 8/4*, 5/4 0