return to solutionsThere is no stopping her. Once again, Mary Lee Pinkney has won themonthly contest with a fine score of 780. Her performance this yearhas been outstanding. Just behind her with 770 are Achim Mueller andSteve Manchester. Mary Lee wins a one year subscription to GammOnLine,although this will be academic as she is sure to win the yearlycontest. She is also invited to be on our expert panel this money.
Below is a list of the scores of the panelists and readers, andthe cumulative votes of the readers for each problem.
PanelistsGeorge Klitsas 780Snowie 780Chris Yep 770Marty Storer 760Casper van der Tak 760Bob Stringer 740Kit Woolsey 740Chuck Bower 680Laila Leonhardt 630ReadersMary_Lee Pinkney 780 Achim Mueller 770 Steve Manchester 770 Steve Wood 740 Mark Danek 730 Carsten Simonsen 730 Doug Roberts 710 Daniel Wittkopp 710 Bill Papa 710 Cyril Courtial 710 Jim Allen 700 Peter Bennet 700 Kevin McGrath 690 John Bakovic 690 Nigel Buchan 680 Ken Bame 680 Ilia Guzei 670 Patrick George 660 Thorbjorn Schionni 660 Kari Hotakainen 660 Rodney Lighton 650 Morris Pearl 650 Peter Shirley 650 Douglas Gitlin 650 Margit Schaefer 630 Gregg Cattanach 630 Ian Dunstan 630 Thomas Bovenzi 630 Maurits Pino 620 Strato 610 Don Heggen 600 Martin Janke 590 Richard Willis 590 Misja Alma 580 Walter Hamm 580 Stephen Flanagan 570 Hisako Sugiura 570 David Berry 560 mjr 560 Hannu Lyyjynen 560 William Bitting 540 Caryl Stephanson 540 Pete Campbell 510 rkg 510 James Segrave 500 Charles Chambers 490 Stewart Pemberton 490 JP White 480 Randy Smith 460 There are 2 months to go, but it looks like it is official. Mary LeePinkney has a 220 point lead, and at the torrid pace she is setting itwould be hard to imagine her faltering at this stage. Achim Mueller isthe only competitor within striking distance, and even if he scoresperfectly it is unlikely that will be good enough.Cumulative scores over 10 monthsMary_Lee Pinkney 7610 Achim Mueller 7390 John Bakovic 7240 Nigel Buchan 7220 Steve Wood 7200 Ilia Guzei 7170 Hisako Sugiura 7060 Kevin McGrath 6790 Ian Dunstan 6670 Rodney Lighton 6620 Carsten Simonsen 6470 Gregg Cattanach 6420 Hannu Lyyjynen 6380 Peter Bennet 6370 Bill Papa 6330 Don Heggen 6250 Doug Roberts 6140 Steve Manchester 5990 William Bitting 5980 Cyril Courtial 5960 Thomas Bovenzi 5960 Charles Chambers 5730 JP White 5680 Richard Willis 5630 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 22/13 27 24/15 8 10/6, 10/5 7 24/20, 10/5 5 10/5, 8/4 2 24/20, 8/3 0 problem 2 13/9, 6/4 19 13/11, 6/2* 10 13/7 9 8/4, 6/4 7 13/11, 9/5 4 problem 3 11/5, 6/5 29 11/10, 11/5 7 11/4* 5 22/21, 10/4* 4 22/16, 11/10 3 10/4*, 4/3 1 10/4*, 6/5 0 10/4*, 8/7 0 problem 4 8/2, 6/2 14 7/3*, 7/1 13 13/3* 13 13/9, 13/7 9 problem 5 23/14 24 13/4 8 13/7, 8/5 8 23/20, 13/7 6 13/10, 13/7 3 problem 6 9/5(2) 20 9/3, 4/2 13 18/16(2), 9/7(2) 8 18/14(2) 6 9/3, 8/6 2 problem 7 24/18, 13/10 26 24/15 10 24/18, 8/5 6 24/21, 13/7 4 13/7, 8/5 2 13/4 1 13/10, 13/7 0 24/18, 13/5 0 problem 8 24/20, 9/4 17 20/15, 13/9 16 24/20, 13/8 11 8/3*, 7/3 3 13/9, 6/1 2 13/9, 13/8 0