return to solutionsBoth the readers and the panel had quite a bit of difficulty with theproblems this month. Achim Mueller, a familiar name in the monthlyquiz, ran away with the contest scoring 780. Far behind was last month'swinner Steve Wood with 750, and Nigel Buchan with 740. Achim receivesa one-year subscription to GammOnLine, and he is invited to be on ourpanel next month.
The leaderboard seems to have a lot of familiar names. How about ityou readers -- let's go after these guys and beat them out.
Below is a list of the scores of the panelists and readers, andthe cumulative votes of the readers for each problem.
PanelistsSnowie 800Alan Alsop 780Steve Wood 750Bob Stringer 740Casper van der Tak 730Chris Yep 720Kit Woolsey 680Marty Storer 660Chuck Bower 630George Klitsas 590ReadersAchim Mueller 780 Steve Wood 750 Nigel Buchan 740 Christian Tagsold 720 Mary_Lee Pinkney 710 Ilia Guzei 710 Mark James 700 Rodney Lighton 690 Peter Gruenbaum 690 John Bakovic 690 Hisako Sugiura 690 Jordan Lampe 680 Kevin McGrath 680 Daniel Wittkopp 670 Carsten Simonsen 670 mau 670 Blake Sorem 660 Charles Koval 660 Mary Bortnyck 660 Hannu Lyyjynen 660 Ramez Abi-Akar 650 Oystein Johansen 650 James Cordes 640 Stewart Pemberton 640 Christian Anthon 640 Alan Messer 630 John Little 630 Joe Leis 630 Eckart Plaul 630 Pete Campbell 620 Franck Del_Rio 620 Stanley Livingston 620 Igor Schein 610 Bruce Regittko 610 David Rennie 610 PeterO 610 Atsushi Honjo 610 Ian Dunstan 610 Richard Willis 610 Thomas Koeb 600 Aram Gurekian 600 Thomas Bovenzi 600 Adrian Jones 600 nelson_huey 600 Douglas Gitlin 600 Tami Jones 600 Douglas Faust 590 Stuart Mann 590 Cyril Courtial 590 Peter Shirley 590 Gregg Cattanach 580 Walter Hamm 570 Stein Kulseth 570 Steve Mellen 570 Robin Swaffield 570 Steve Manchester 570 Don Heggen 570 Hansjoerg Lehnherr 560 Strato 560 Bill Papa 560 Ronald Tiggelen 560 NPW 560 Jim Allen 550 Christian Kopmann 550 Maurits Pino 550 Eliot Katz 550 William Bitting 540 Peter Bennet 530 Stephen Flanagan 530 Dougas O'Keefe 530 Francois Tissot 530 Clint Guttman 530 Kristoffer Hoetzeneder 530 Eric Walstra 520 bpiland 520 Kasper Andersen 520 Doug Roberts 520 James Ferguson 510 Ed Maslansky 500 Alfred Mamlet 490 Barry Murphy 490 Keith Olsen 480 JP White 470 Charles Chambers 470 Scott Ward 460 Bud McCullen 460 Achim Mueller pulls back into first place with his winning score thismonth. Steve Wood is hanging right behind him. Mary Lee Pinkney, aconsistent contender, is in third place. The leaders are starting topull away, but there is plenty of time for other readers to catch up.Cumulative scores over 4 monthsAchim Mueller 3070 Steve Wood 3040 Mary_Lee Pinkney 2970 Christian Tagsold 2920 Nigel Buchan 2910 Oystein Johansen 2910 John Bakovic 2910 Hisako Sugiura 2900 Douglas Gitlin 2900 Ilia Guzei 2820 mau 2770 Kevin McGrath 2740 Hannu Lyyjynen 2720 Blake Sorem 2700 Franck Del_Rio 2700 Rodney Lighton 2700 Charles Koval 2650 Hansjoerg Lehnherr 2610 Walter Hamm 2610 Doug Roberts 2580 Ian Dunstan 2570 Daniel Wittkopp 2560 Aram Gurekian 2550 Gregg Cattanach 2530 James Cordes 2530 William Bitting 2520 Douglas Faust 2480 Jim Allen 2470 Don Heggen 2470 Charles Chambers 2460 Bill Papa 2450 Bruce Regittko 2440 PeterO 2420 JP White 2410 Steve Manchester 2410 Stanley Livingston 2400 Alan Messer 2400 Carsten Simonsen 2390 Richard Willis 2370 nelson_huey 2360 Peter Bennet 2350 Peter Shirley 2340 Thomas Bovenzi 2340 Eric Walstra 2330 Kasper Andersen 2330 Christian Anthon 2330 Atsushi Honjo 2320 Cyril Courtial 2310 Eliot Katz 2250 Bud McCullen 2210 Ed Maslansky 2210 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 10/5, 8/5 30 13/10, 13/8 19 24/21, 20/15 15 24/21, 6/1* 10 20/15, 10/7 8 24/16 3 10/7, 6/1* 2 problem 2 11/7, 10/7 46 10/3* 20 20/13 8 11/7, 6/3* 6 20/16, 6/3* 4 13/9, 6/3* 3 problem 3 8/3* 27 23/22, 8/4 20 23/18 14 13/8 14 23/22, 13/9 12 problem 4 6/2 28 7/6, 7/4 23 15/11 22 8/4 14 8/7, 6/3 0 problem 5 13/9, 6/1* 31 13/4 25 13/9, 13/8 18 18/9 7 13/8, 6/2 4 7/2, 6/2 2 8/3, 7/3 0 problem 6 24/21, 18/16* 30 18/16*, 8/5* 25 6/4*, 4/1 23 18/16*, 16/13 9 problem 7 11/8, 7/2* 53 13/10, 13/8 17 11/6, 7/4 8 6/1, 4/1 6 11/8, 11/6 3 8/3, 6/3 0 problem 8 8/4, 8/3 25 13/9, 13/8 21 13/8, 6/2 18 6/2, 6/1 17 13/4 6