The ACF Website wishes a big congratulations to Roy Little, Oklahoma, the composer of Hindsight, which was voted the winner of
Unofficial World Championship Checker Problem Composing Contest #38.
Unofficial World Championship Checker Problem Composing Contest #38.
Roy Little returns to the podium, and Liam Stephens (Ireland) picks the winner for the 6th consecutive time.
Roy's Hindsight won with 6 votes. Liam and Gene Ellison divulged their votes for it in advance. With 4 winning picks in 5 tries, Gene is 2nd to Liam on the Evaluation Ladder.
Tied for 2nd place with 5 votes were The Magnificent Seven, also by Roy Little, and Late One Night, by Ed Atkinson. Slava Goren (Russia), Bob Newell (Hawaii), Leo Springer (Netherlands), and Melvyn Green (England) voted for The Magnificent Seven. Leo and Melvyn mailed in their votes. Melvyn appreciated this contest being in honor of his many giant stroke compositions over the years. Richard Marlowe, Wilma Wolverton and Kathy Wirthwein voted for Late One Night.
Trailing, with one vote each, were the other three entries. Round Trip Ticket, by Ed Atkinson; Five, by Bill Salot, receiving Brian Hinkle's vote; and Lucky Seven, by Bill Salot, receiving George Hay's vote.
This was the 4th consecutive contest in which every entry received at least one 1st place vote.
The 5-jump sweeps defeated the 7-jump sweeps, 11 votes to 5.
344 visited the web site, 19 of whom voted.
Here is how the contest was introduced:
It is time for a change of pace, major fireworks, bigger than life, impractical, strictly-for-show, eye-popping sweepers in honor of stroke specialist Melvyn Green (England). Critics will say these are easy to compose and easy to solve; we will see!
Prolific composers Atkinson, Little and Salot continue their mutual confrontations by each offering a highly animated pair of original, unpublished examples. Each pair of entries is similar in that their solutions differ in the same way, thus dividing the contest into two categories. You will see!
So the contest simultaneously matches 6 problems, 3 composers, and 2 categories. Who will decide the winners of those matches? If willing, you, the readers will do it, each with a single vote for your choice of the most entertaining animation below. Go see!
Unfortunately, the animation program has a glitch that prevents it from jumping a large number of checkers when an alternate jump of fewer checkers is available. The animation will always jump the fewer number. For this reason, the final sweep on one of the problems is not animated. Please don't hold this against the problem. Instead, it is a case of the problemist baffling the computer programmer.
By disclosing your vote to Salot, at the address under the diagrams, before the polls close, you can climb on the problem evaluation ladder, currently headed by Liam Stephens (Ireland).
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