Unofficial World Championship Checker Problem Composing Contest 31 – Escapes - Overall Results
Round 1, December 2016 – 347 visitors; 13 voted
Winner: Tight Squeeze by Roy Little, 10 votes; Roy regains World Championship, Problemist of the Year again; Tight Squeeze advances to Round 2;
2nd Place: Scattered Brains by Bill Salot, 2 votes; eliminated;
3rd Place: Desperate Escape by Ed Atkinson, 1 vote; eliminated;
4th & 5th Place Tie, Simple Simon by Louis Cowie and Ook by Jim Loy, 0 votes each; eliminated.
Round 2, February 2017 – 287 visitors; 12 voted
Overall Winner Tight Squeeze by Roy Little, 8 votes; still the winner; still World Champion;
2nd in voting, but disqualified, Sharecropper, a variation of a larger problem co-authored by 19th-Century Chicagoans G. H. Slocum and his mentor Charles Hefter, 2 votes; disqualified due to prior publication by them in the Chicago Inter Ocean, October 15, 1892; this was the first of two times in his career that Slocum shared co-authorship of a problem; Mr. Slocum will try again.
2nd & 3rd Place Tie: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper by Brian Hinkle & It’s a Draw! by John Webster, 1 vote each; “It’s a Draw!” is what Webster said after Teal Stanley resigned their last game at the 2016 Virginia Tourney.
Contest 31 Escapes - Overall Results
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Bill Salot
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George Hay
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Re: Contest 31 Escapes - Overall Results
Hi Bill, thank you for a unique two-part Contest #31. Roy Little's Tight Squeeze and Slocum/Hefter's Sharcropper are two simply elegant problems!
--George Hay
--George Hay