Congratulations to Thomas Cunningham, whose fine score of 780 won themonthly contest and ruined Mary Lee Pinkney's attempt at the hat trickof three wins in a row. Mary Lee and Nigel Buchan were right behind with770. Thomas wins a free 1-year subscription to GammOnLine, and is invitedto join our expert panel this month.

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

PanelistsMary Lee Pinkney                           770Chris Yep                                  760Kit Woolsey                                750Doug Doub                                  730George Klitsas                             730Marty Storer                               730Casper van der Tak                         710Snowie                                     700Chuck Bower                                690Bob Stringer                               680ReadersThomas Cunningham                          780 Nigel Buchan                               770 Mary_Lee Pinkney                           770 Ilia Guzei                                 750 Blake Sorem                                740 Walter Hamm                                730 Bruce Regittko                             730 Hisako Sugiura                             730 John Bakovic                               720 Gregg Cattanach                            710 Ian Dunstan                                710 Dorn Bishop                                710 Alan Messer                                700 Donald Boyer                               700 Carsten Simonsen                           700 Kevin McGrath                              690 Jim Allen                                  690 Dougas O'Keefe                             690 Achim Mueller                              690 Steve Wood                                 680 mau                                        680 Eric Walstra                               670 Franck Del_Rio                             670 David Berry                                660 Courtney Foster                            660 Rodney Lighton                             660 Christian Tagsold                          660 Hansjoerg Lehnherr                         660 Douglas Faust                              660 Benjamin Lee                               650 Peter Bennet                               650 Cheryl Andersen                            650 Don Heggen                                 640 Mark Danek                                 640 Oystein Johansen                           640 Stewart Pemberton                          640 Francois Tissot                            640 nelson_huey                                640 Bill Papa                                  630 Thorbjorn Schionni                         630 Margit Schaefer                            630 John Little                                630 Daniel Murphy                              630 Hannu Lyyjynen                             630 Ed Maslansky                               610 James Cordes                               600 Cyril Courtial                             590 Thomas Bovenzi                             590 Daniel Wittkopp                            590 Richard Willis                             580 rkg                                        570 Keith Olsen                                570 Strato                                     570 Patrick George                             560 Steve Manchester                           560 William Bitting                            550 Charles Chambers                           550 Doug Roberts                               550 Ben Elliott                                550 Kevin Mittelstadt                          540 JP White                                   530 Stephen Flanagan                           530 Les Hawkins                                520 Daniel Bjornfot                            500 Mary Lee Pinkney pulled farther ahead with another fine score.  More than100 points behind is Achim Mueller, followed by John Bakovic and ChristianTagsold.  There are four months remaining, but if Mary Lee continues atthis clip she is going to be very difficult to catch.Cumulative scores over 8 monthsMary_Lee Pinkney                           6060 Achim Mueller                              5930 John Bakovic                               5830 Christian Tagsold                          5820 Steve Wood                                 5780 Nigel Buchan                               5770 Hisako Sugiura                             5760 Ilia Guzei                                 5750 Oystein Johansen                           5630 Blake Sorem                                5560 Kevin McGrath                              5410 Ian Dunstan                                5330 Rodney Lighton                             5310 Hannu Lyyjynen                             5210 Franck Del_Rio                             5130 Gregg Cattanach                            5080 Carsten Simonsen                           5040 Peter Bennet                               5020 Don Heggen                                 5010 Bill Papa                                  4990 William Bitting                            4890 Bruce Regittko                             4890 Doug Roberts                               4880 James Cordes                               4850 Eric Walstra                               4840 nelson_huey                                4740 Thomas Bovenzi                             4740 Alan Messer                                4720 Charles Chambers                           4710 JP White                                   4670 Steve Manchester                           4660 Cyril Courtial                             4660 Ed Maslansky                               4530 Richard Willis                             4460 Tally of reader's votes on each problemproblem 1 13/11, 13/10             21 24/22, 11/8              14 24/22, 8/5*              12 10/5*                    7 13/11, 8/5*              7 8/5*, 5/3                3 problem 2 13/12, 6/4*              25 13/10                    19 6/4*, 4/3                14 6/4*, 5/4                4 23/22, 6/4*              2 problem 3 17/10                    45 23/17, 6/5*              11 13/7, 8/7                4 23/17, 10/9              3 17/11, 6/5*              1 problem 4 13/7, 10/7               31 24/21, 8/2*              31 13/10, 8/2*              1 24/15                    1 problem 5 24/18, 13/9*             27 13/9*, 8/2*              19 8/2*, 6/2                16 13/9*, 13/7              2 problem 6 8/5, 6/5                 33 24/21, 22/21             19 13/9*                    8 24/21, 8/7*              4 13/10, 8/7*              0 problem 7 6/2*, 2/1*               28 14/10, 6/5               18 24/20, 14/13             6 13/8                     4 14/9                     3 13/9, 6/5                3 24/20, 6/5               2 problem 8 24/22, 13/9              25 24/22, 8/4               24 13/11, 8/4               7 13/11, 13/9              6 13/9, 6/4                2 

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