Unofficial World Championship Checker Problem Composing Contest 50 - 3x3s - RESULTS

[Bill Salot]

Of the five problems in Contest 50, three with the terms White to Play and Win took turns leading and trounced the two draws.

Shark Bait, by Roy Little, won with 6 votes (his 20th win or 1st place tie).
Following in order were Differential Calculus, by Bill Salot, with 5 votes; Inner Outcome, by Ed Atkinson, with 4 votes; With Relish, by Jim Loy, with 2 votes, and Wyllie Corrected, a lost problem by the legendary G.H.Slocum and C. Hefter, co-authors, with 0 votes. Their correction joins Slocum's previous entries, all of which were non-winners disqualified due to prior publication.

Shark Bait got Mark Sokolovsky's vote.
Differential Calculus got votes from George Hay and Liam Stephens.
Inner Outcome got votes from Gene Ellison and Lloyd Gordon.
With Relish got Kathy Wirthwein's vote.

Here is the updated Voters' Ladder:

1&2 tie - Mark Sokolovsky & Leo Springer (Netherlands) picked 3 winners in 4 tries (75%)
3 - Liam Stephens (Ireland), 10 in 17 tries (59%)
4 - Slava Gorin (Russia) 7 in 13 tries (54%)
5 - Kathy Wirthwein 8 in 15 tries (53%)
17 others have either picked fewer than 50% winners or have voted in fewer than 4 contests.

Contest 50 had 273 visitors, 17 of whom voted.

[George Hay]

Congratulations to Roy Little with an incredible "20th win or 1st place tie" with Shark Bait. I reviewed Contest 50 "with relish," and I see something of what Dr. Marion F. Tinsley spoke of when he talked about the beauty of the game of checkers!

--George Hay