import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.InputMismatchException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.util.Comparator;
import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Built using CHelper plug-in
 * Actual solution is at the top
 */
public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        InputStream inputStream = System.in;
        OutputStream outputStream = System.out;
        InputReader in = new InputReader(inputStream);
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(outputStream);
        TaskC solver = new TaskC();
        solver.solve(1, in, out);
        out.close();
    }

    static class TaskC {
        public void solve(int testNumber, InputReader in, PrintWriter out) {
            int n = in.nextInt();
            long[] a = new long[n];
            long[] b = new long[n];
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                a[i] = in.nextLong();
                b[i] = in.nextLong();
            }

            List<LongLongPair> list = new ArrayList<>();
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                list.add(new LongLongPair(a[i], b[i]));
            }
            list.sort(Comparator.comparingLong(p -> p.first + p.second));

            long ans = 0;
            for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
                if (i % 2 == 0) {
                    ans += list.get(n - 1 - i).first;
                } else {
                    ans -= list.get(n - 1 - i).second;
                }
            }

            out.println(ans);
        }

    }

    static class LongLongPair implements Comparable<LongLongPair> {
        public final long first;
        public final long second;

        public LongLongPair(long first, long second) {
            this.first = first;
            this.second = second;
        }

        public boolean equals(Object o) {
            if (this == o) {
                return true;
            }
            if (o == null || getClass() != o.getClass()) {
                return false;
            }

            LongLongPair pair = (LongLongPair) o;

            return first == pair.first && second == pair.second;
        }

        public int hashCode() {
            int result = Long.hashCode(first);
            result = 31 * result + Long.hashCode(second);
            return result;
        }

        public String toString() {
            return "(" + first + "," + second + ")";
        }

        public int compareTo(LongLongPair o) {
            int value = Long.compare(first, o.first);
            if (value != 0) {
                return value;
            }
            return Long.compare(second, o.second);
        }

    }

    static class InputReader {
        private BufferedReader br;
        private StringTokenizer st;

        public InputReader(InputStream inputStream) {
            br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
            st = new StringTokenizer("");
        }

        public String nextString() {
            while (!st.hasMoreTokens()) {
                try {
                    st = new StringTokenizer(br.readLine(), " ");
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    throw new InputMismatchException();
                }
            }
            return st.nextToken();
        }

        public int nextInt() {
            return Integer.parseInt(nextString());
        }

        public long nextLong() {
            return Long.parseLong(nextString());
        }

    }
}



Measured memory_bytes: 46956