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Readers Answers

Congratulations to John Bakovic, whose fine score of 770 on a difficultset of problems won first place. To see how difficult this set was, lookat the readers' choices on problem 1 -- almost nobody found the panel's play.John wins a free 1-year subscription to GammOnLine, and will be invited tojoin 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.

PanelistsSnowie                                     780Chris Yep                                  770Kit Woolsey                                750Casper van der Tak                         740Marty Storer                               730Neil Kazaross                              720Achim Mueller                              720Doug Doub                                  710Bob Stringer                               690Chuck Bower                                680George Klitsas                             680ReadersJohn Bakovic                               770 Blake Sorem                                750 Steve Mellen                               750 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           740 Franck Del_Rio                             730 Christian Tagsold                          730 Atanas Krastev                             730 Steve Wood                                 720 Achim Mueller                              720 Oystein Johansen                           720 Douglas Gitlin 		 		   720Strato                                     710 Peter Bennet                               710 Nigel Buchan                               700 Ian Dunstan                                700 Hisako Sugiura                             690 Bill Papa                                  690 Mark Danek                                 680 Stuart Mann                                670 Walter Hamm                                670 Thomas Bovenzi                             670 Ilia Guzei                                 670 Dougas O'Keefe                             650 Carsten Simonsen                           640 mjr                                        640 Doug Roberts                               640 Eric Walstra                               630 Christian Kopmann                          630 James Ferguson                             630 Atsushi Honjo                              630 Kevin McGrath                              620 Mark Rozans                                620 Cyril Courtial                             620 Don Heggen                                 610 Rodney Lighton                             610 Robin Swaffield                            610 Thorbjorn Schionni                         610 Peter Pallesen                             600 Daniel Wittkopp                            600 William Bitting                            600 Courtney Foster                            600 Morris Pearl                               600 Steve Manchester                           600 Hannu Lyyjynen                             600 Gregg Cattanach                            600 Mary Bortnyck                              600 David Rogers                               590 Kasper Andersen                            590 Joseph Barberio                            590 Francois Tardieu                           590 Maurits Pino                               590 Bruce Regittko                             570 Charles Koval                              560 Charles Chambers                           560 Stanley Livingston                         550 Ed Maslansky                               550 JP White                                   550 Stewart Pemberton                          550 Gerrit Roelants                            540 Alef Rosenbaum                             520 Ian Shaw                                   510 bpiland                                    510 PeterO                                     510 Peter Shirley                              510 nelson_huey                                500 Alan Messer                                500 James Cordes                               490 Carl Blumenstein                           490 Richard Willis                             480 Bud McCullen                               440 The leaders retain their lead with solid performances, but Mary Lee Pinkneyand John Bakovic outscore them and gain some ground.  Things are stillpretty well bunched as we approach the halfway mark,Cumulative scores over 5 monthsAchim Mueller                              3790 Steve Wood                                 3760 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           3710 John Bakovic                               3680 Christian Tagsold                          3650 Douglas Gitlan				   3620Oystein Johansen                           3630 Nigel Buchan                               3610 Hisako Sugiura                             3590 Ilia Guzei                                 3490 Blake Sorem                                3450 Franck Del_Rio                             3430 Kevin McGrath                              3360 Hannu Lyyjynen                             3320 Rodney Lighton                             3310 Walter Hamm                                3280 Ian Dunstan                                3270 Doug Roberts                               3220 Charles Koval                              3210 Daniel Wittkopp                            3160 Daniel Wittkopp                            3160 Bill Papa                                  3140 Gregg Cattanach                            3130 William Bitting                            3120 Don Heggen                                 3080 Peter Bennet                               3060 Carsten Simonsen                           3030 Charles Chambers                           3020 James Cordes                               3020 Thomas Bovenzi                             3010 Bruce Regittko                             3010 Steve Manchester                           3010 JP White                                   2960 Eric Walstra                               2960 Stanley Livingston                         2950 Atsushi Honjo                              2950 Cyril Courtial                             2930 PeterO                                     2930 Kasper Andersen                            2920 Alan Messer                                2900 nelson_huey                                2860 Peter Shirley                              2850 Richard Willis                             2850 Ed Maslansky                               2760 Bud McCullen                               2650 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 21/10                    57 9/4, 9/3                 6 13/8, 13/7               5 21/16, 21/15             2 13/2                     1 13/8, 9/3                0 13/7, 9/4                0 problem 2 13/3*                    40 24/20, 16/10             20 16/6                     4 24/18, 20/16             4 24/20, 8/2               2 20/16, 8/2               1 16/10, 8/4               0 problem 3 7/1*, 6/1                29 14/8, 6/1*               23 21/16, 14/8              9 14/3                     5 13/8, 13/7               3 14/8, 13/8               2 problem 4 23/16                    32 13/9, 6/3*               14 10/3*                    8 23/20, 10/6              7 13/10, 6/2               5 13/10, 8/4               5 13/6                     0 problem 5 20/15, 9/6               26 13/5                     21 20/15, 13/10             11 20/15, 18/15             7 13/8, 9/6                6 18/15, 18/13             0 8/3, 6/3                 0 13/10, 13/8              0 problem 6 11/10, 8/3*              34 11/5                     30 8/2                      5 8/3*, 3/2                2 11/6, 8/7                0 problem 7 9/5, 6/5                 24 23/22, 13/9              19 13/9, 6/5                16 23/18                    5 24/20, 23/22             4 24/20, 6/5               2 23/22, 6/2               1 13/8                     0 problem 8 13/9, 10/9               28 24/20, 11/10             25 11/7, 8/7                14 13/9, 11/10              3 24/23, 10/6              1 13/8                     0 

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