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Congratulations to Walter Hamm, who scored a fine 770 on a set of problemswhich baffled readers and panelists alike. Ilia Guzei was second, followedby Oystein Johansen and Doug Roberts. Walter earns a free 1-yearsubscription to GammOnLine, and will be invited to join our expert panelnext month.

Below is a list of the scores of the panelists and readers, andthe cumulative votes of the readers for each problem.

PanelistsNeil Kazaross                              800Snowie                                     790Ilia Guzei                                 750Casper van der Tak                         730Chuck Bower                                710Bob Stringer                               710Alan Alsop                                 700Marty Storer                               700Kit Woolsey                                700Chris Yep                                  700George Klitsas                             580Laila Leonhardt                            570ReadersWalter Hamm                                770 Ilia Guzei                                 750 Oystein Johansen                           740 Doug Roberts                               740 Stein Kulseth                              720 Alan Alsop                                 720 Thaddeus Bright                            720 Nigel Buchan                               710 Alfred Mamlet                              710 John Bakovic                               710 Sven-Olav Noren                            700 Kevin McGrath                              700 Achim Mueller                              700 Courtney Foster                            690 Shoichiro Sengoku                          690 Mark Rozans                                690 Maurits Pino                               690 Dorn Bishop                                690 Hisako Sugiura                             690 Jim Allen                                  690 Rodney Lighton                             680 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           680 Cyril Courtial                             680 Eleni Chambers                             670 Ed Maslansky                               670 Gregg Cattanach                            670 Jean-Francois Martaille                    670 Thomas Cunningham                          670 bpiland                                    670 Edward Hoskins                             660 Hannu Lyyjynen                             660 Barry Silliman                             650 Atsushi Honjo                              650 Ian Shaw                                   650 Don Heggen                                 640 Rob Adams                                  640 Peter Pallesen                             640 Alef Rosenbaum                             640 Peter Bennet                               640 Bill Papa                                  640 Steve Manchester                           640 Hirohisa Tezuka                            640 Eliot Katz                                 630 nelson_huey                                630 Daniel Wittkopp                            630 Bud McCullen                               620 William Bitting                            620 Michael Nielsen                            620 JP White                                   620 Eckart Plaul                               610 Aram Gurekian                              610 Roy Hollands                               600 Carsten Simonsen                           600 David Berry                                600 Thomas Bovenzi                             590 Richard Willis                             590 Charles Chambers                           580 James Cordes                               580 Bruce Regittko                             570 Strato                                     570 Walter Swan                                570 PeterO                                     570 Neil Roseman                               570 Stuart Mann                                560 Douglas Faust                              560 Stanley Livingston                         550 mjr                                        550 Vladimir Kuznetsov                         530 Morten Kidal                               520 William Boother                            520 Kari Hotakainen                            510 Robin Swaffield                            500 Albert Silver                              480 Alan Messer                                460 Steve Wood                                 460 James Gdowik                               430 Ilia Guzei makes another strong showing, and pulls well into the lead asthe other contenders falter.  There are still 4 months to go, and Ilia'slead of 80 points could vanish very quickly.Cumulative scores over 8 monthsIlia Guzei                                 5960 Kevin McGrath                              5880 Eleni Chambers                             5880 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           5820 Walter Hamm                                5790 Hannu Lyyjynen                             5750 Nigel Buchan                               5720 Oystein Johansen                           5660 Achim Mueller                              5580 Dorn Bishop                                5320 Gregg Cattanach                            5320 Rob Adams                                  5320 Alfred Mamlet                              5280 Doug Roberts                               5250 Stuart Mann                                5250 Kari Hotakainen                            5250 Peter Bennet                               5230 bpiland                                    5210 Michael Nielsen                            5190 Shoichiro Sengoku                          5180 Jim Allen                                  5180 Don Heggen                                 5130 Rodney Lighton                             5110 Douglas Faust                              5100 mjr                                        5100 Stanley Livingston                         5060 Bill Papa                                  5050 PeterO                                     4950 Bud McCullen                               4910 Eliot Katz                                 4910 Bruce Regittko                             4900 nelson_huey                                4870 Ed Maslansky                               4870 Thomas Bovenzi                             4790 Steve Wood                                 4690 Richard Willis                             4530 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 13/7(4)                  42 13/7(2), 8/2(2)*         17 17/11(2), 13/7(2)        9 17/5(2)                  5 13/1*, 8/2(2)*           3 13/1(2)*                 0 problem 2 10/6, 8/3                24 8/4, 8/3                 21 22/13                    15 10/6, 10/5               15 8/3, 5/1                 1 10/5, 8/4                0 problem 3 8/3, 6/3                 25 14/9, 8/5*               23 14/6                     15 13/5*                    6 8/5*, 6/1*               4 24/21, 14/9              1 24/21, 13/8              1 24/16                    1 problem 4 6/5, 6/4                 31 10/8, 6/5                15 6/3                      12 10/9, 10/8               9 13/10                    5 13/11, 6/5               3 8/5                      1 problem 5 13/8                     22 6/1*                     20 22/21, 13/9              12 13/9, 6/5                10 24/23, 13/9              5 13/9, 7/6                3 24/23, 22/18             3 22/18, 7/6               1 problem 6 12/11*, 11/8             41 15/11*                   21 12/11*, 4/1              10 12/11*, 8/5              4 problem 7 24/23, 11/8              30 24/23, 24/21             22 24/21, 11/10             11 8/5, 6/5                 10 24/23, 6/3*              3 problem 8 24/20, 5/4               34 13/8                     18 24/23, 6/2*              10 24/20, 6/5               6 8/4, 5/4                 4 24/23, 13/9              3 20/15                    1 

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