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Readers Answers

Congratulations to Bill Papa, who topped the readers with a perfect800 on a relatively high scoring set of problems. Behind him wereElini Chambers and John Bakovic with fine scores of 780, and severalreaders just behind them. Bill wins a free 1-year subscription to GammOnLine,and will be invited to join 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.

PanelistsCasper van der Tak                         800John Bakovic                               780Bob Stringer                               770Snowie                                     760Doug Doub                                  750Neil Kazaross                              740George Klitsas                             730Kit Woolsey                                720Chuck Bower                                700Marty Storer                               700Alan Alsop                                 690Chris Yep                                  690Laila Leonhardt                            660ReadersBill Papa                                  800 Eleni Chambers                             780 John Bakovic                               780 Nigel Buchan                               770 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           760 Doug Roberts                               760 Christian Tagsold                          750 Achim Mueller                              750 Oystein Johansen                           740 Kasper Andersen                            730 Alan Alsop                                 730 Hannu Lyyjynen                             730 Steve Mellen                               720 Steve Manchester                           710 Hirohisa Tezuka                            710 Frank Rodolf                               710 Hisako Sugiura                             710 JP White                                   710 Robert Loveless                            700 Gregg Cattanach                            700 Rob Adams                                  700 Francois Tissot                            700 Peter Bennet                               700 Kevin McGrath                              690 Cyril Courtial                             690 William Bitting                            690 Thomas Cunningham                          680 Don Heggen                                 680 James Cordes                               670 Strato                                     670 Douglas Faust                              670 Kari Hotakainen                            670 Ned Cross                                  660 Carl Blumenstein                           650 Carsten Simonsen                           650 Hansjoerg Lehnherr                         650 Charles Chambers                           650 Stanley Livingston                         650 Thaddeus Bright                            650 Scott Roy                                  640 Stefanos Moralis                           640 Bud McCullen                               630 Eckart Plaul                               630 John Kennedy                               630 Ilia Guzei                                 630 Cesare Maiellano                           620 Peter Pallesen                             610 Lee Nevo                                   610 Timo Vaatainen                             610 bpiland                                    610 David Berry                                610 nelson_huey                                600 mjr                                        600 Eliot Katz                                 600 Dean Gay                                   600 Alfred Mamlet                              600 Franck Del_Rio                             590 Steve Wood                                 590 Sewall Hodges                              590 PeterO                                     580 Atsushi Honjo                              580 Lars Leth                                  580 Dorn Bishop                                580 Courtney Foster                            580 Maik Stiebler                              570 Thorbjorn Schionni                         570 Charles Koval                              570 Peter Shirley                              570 Tanja Lewis                                560 Stein Kulseth                              560 Robin Swaffield                            560 Thomas Bovenzi                             540 James Gdowik                               530 Walter Hamm                                530 Rodney Lighton                             520 Martin Krainer                             520 Stuart Mann                                500 Bob Manson                                 500 Ed Maslansky                               500 Jim Allen                                  500 Daniel Wittkopp                            480 Stephan Vaillancourt                       470 Bruce Regittko                             450 Richard Willis                             410 It's a whole new ball game.  Ilia Guzia slipped badly with a disastrousscore of 630, and Mary Lee Pinkney, Elini Chambers, and Kevin McGrathare now all right on his heels.  It looks like we are going to havean exciting finish in the yearly contest after all.Cumulative scores over 10 monthsIlia Guzei                                 7310 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           7300 Eleni Chambers                             7290 Kevin McGrath                              7270 Hannu Lyyjynen                             7220 Nigel Buchan                               7150 Oystein Johansen                           7110 Achim Mueller                              7030 Gregg Cattanach                            6710 Doug Roberts                               6640 Peter Bennet                               6580 Rob Adams                                  6540 Don Heggen                                 6510 Kari Hotakainen                            6470 bpiland                                    6470 Bill Papa                                  6450 Alfred Mamlet                              6440 Dorn Bishop                                6420 Douglas Faust                              6350 Stanley Livingston                         6350 Stuart Mann                                6310 Rodney Lighton                             6290 Jim Allen                                  6250 Bud McCullen                               6090 PeterO                                     6020 nelson_huey                                6000 Ed Maslansky                               5970 Bruce Regittko                             5950 Steve Wood                                 5890 Thomas Bovenzi                             5810 Richard Willis                             5580 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 9/7, 8/7                 36 24/21                    22 24/23, 6/4               16 24/23, 13/11             5 13/11, 9/8               4 13/11, 6/5               1 13/10                    0 problem 2 14/3*                    33 21/10                    24 13/2*                    13 14/8, 13/8               6 14/8, 10/5               4 13/8, 10/4               2 14/8, 6/1                2 problem 3 24/13                    29 24/18, 6/1*              17 13/7, 6/1*               17 13/8, 13/7               11 24/18, 13/8              10 problem 4 13/7                     44 24/22, 13/9              29 8/4, 6/4                 5 24/18                    5 24/22, 6/2*              1 problem 5 24/23, 13/10             37 13/10, 7/6               23 24/20                    14 7/6, 7/4                 8 24/23, 7/4               2 problem 6 8/2*, 6/2                57 13/9*, 8/2*              14 13/9*, 9/3               5 13/9*, 13/7              4 13/7, 7/3                4 problem 7 16/13, 11/8, 11/5        34 8/2(2)                   20 16/10, 13/10, 11/8       19 16/10, 13/10, 6/3        10 16/10, 13/10(2)          1 16/10, 11/8(2)           0 problem 8 8/5, 6/4                 40 9/7, 8/5                 29 20/15                    10 9/7, 9/6                 2 8/3                      2 7/4, 6/4                 1 6/4, 6/3                 0 

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