High scoring month. Thomas Cunningham repeated his last month's victory,tied with Black Sorem, with a score of 790. Right behind werethe familiar faces of Mary Lee Pinkney, John Bakovic, and BruceRegittko with 780, and several readers right behind them. Thomas andBlake both receive a one-year subscription to GammOnLine, and they areinvited 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.

PanelistsNeil Kazaross                              790Doug Doub                                  780Bob Stringer                               760Snowie                                     750Marty Storer                               740Chris Yep                                  720Chuck Bower                                690Kit Woolsey                                690George Klitsas                             630ReadersBlake Sorem                                790 Thomas Cunningham                          790 Bruce Regittko                             780 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           780 John Bakovic                               780 Steve Wood                                 770 Ilia Guzei                                 770 Christian Tagsold                          770 Achim Mueller                              760 Stefanos Moralis                           750 Douglas Gitlin                             750 Hisako Sugiura                             740 Kevin McGrath                              740 Margit Schaefer                            740 Daniel Wittkopp                            730 Mark Danek                                 720 Walter Hamm                                720 Hannu Lyyjynen                             710 Jason Artz                                 700 Nigel Buchan                               690 Rodney Lighton                             670 Steve Manchester                           660 Robert Loveless                            640 Patrick George                             640 Martin Janke                               640 William Bitting                            630 Jim Allen                                  620 Courtney Foster                            620 Carsten Simonsen                           610 Stuart Mann                                610 Jeroen Wieland                             610 Doug Roberts                               610 Gregg Cattanach                            600 Bill Papa                                  600 Thorbjorn Schionni                         590 Dougas O'Keefe                             590 John Little                                590 Peter Bennet                               590 Lee Nevo                                   580 Maurits Pino                               580 Constantine Kritsonis                      580 Randy Smith                                580 mjr                                        570 Stewart Pemberton                          570 Peter-Olav Lura                            570 Richard Willis                             570 Gerrit Roelants                            570 Stein Kulseth                              560 Alan Messer                                560 Kevin Mittelstadt                          550 Aram Gurekian                              550 Thomas Bovenzi                             540 nelson_huey                                540 Peter Grotrian                             540 Ed Maslansky                               540 Carl Blumenstein                           540 David Berry                                530 Joseph O'Halloran                          520 Matthew Janis                              520 Douglas Faust                              520 Robin Swaffield                            520 Don Heggen                                 520 Michael Hindley                            520 Ian Shaw                                   510 Cyril Courtial                             510 JP White                                   510 Neil Roseman                               510 John Moore                                 510 Christian Anthon                           500 Michael Sullivan                           500 Charles Chambers                           500 Franck Del_Rio                             500 Francois Tissot                            490 Donald Boyer                               480 Josh Avery                                 450 Stanley Livingston                         430 It looks like it is all over.  Mary Lee Pinkney pulled even farther aheadwith another great score.  There are 3 months left, but it looks unlikelythat anybody will catch her.  However, just like in backgammon, you neverknow what might happen.Cumulative scores over 9 monthsMary_Lee Pinkney                           6830 Achim Mueller                              6620 John Bakovic                               6550 Nigel Buchan                               6540 Ilia Guzei                                 6500 Hisako Sugiura                             6490 Christian Tagsold                          6480 Steve Wood                                 6460 Blake Sorem                                6300 Oystein Johansen                           6270 Kevin McGrath                              6100 Ian Dunstan                                6040 Rodney Lighton                             5970 Hannu Lyyjynen                             5840 Franck Del_Rio                             5800 Gregg Cattanach                            5790 Carsten Simonsen                           5740 Peter Bennet                               5670 Don Heggen                                 5650 Bill Papa                                  5620 Bruce Regittko                             5620 Eric Walstra                               5510 James Cordes                               5450 William Bitting                            5440 Doug Roberts                               5430 Alan Messer                                5420 nelson_huey                                5380 Thomas Bovenzi                             5330 Charles Chambers                           5260 Cyril Courtial                             5250 Steve Manchester                           5220 JP White                                   5200 Ed Maslansky                               5140 Richard Willis                             5040 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 13/9, 11/9               41 22/18, 20/18             23 22/20, 13/9              10 22/20, 11/7              2 22/20, 6/2               0 problem 2 24/22, 9/3*              41 9/3*, 3/1*               10 13/7, 9/7                10 22/16, 11/9              9 24/22, 13/7              6 13/11, 9/3*              0 problem 3 21/11                    27 11/5*, 5/1*              15 24/20, 11/5*             14 24/14                    7 13/9, 11/5*              6 13/7, 11/7               6 8/2, 6/2                 1 problem 4 13/6                     33 22/18, 8/5               13 22/15                    11 24/21, 8/4               8 24/21, 13/9              5 13/9, 8/5                4 24/21, 6/2               2 8/5, 6/2                 0 problem 5 13/5                     24 24/18, 13/11             20 24/22, 13/7              16 24/16                    12 24/22, 24/18             4 problem 6 8/7, 8/2                 25 13/7, 2/1*               22 21/15, 2/1*              20 7/1*, 2/1                8 21/14                    1 problem 7 22/11                    44 13/7, 6/1                13 13/8, 13/7               13 8/2, 7/2                 3 22/16, 13/8              2 22/16, 7/2               1 problem 8 13/2*                    35 14/9, 14/8               24 14/9, 10/4               10 10/5, 9/3                3 10/5, 9/3                3 14/8, 13/8               2 10/4, 9/4                2 

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