The Syracuse Go Club hosted its 12th annual Salt City Tournament on March 23; thirty-seven players participated, one shy of the tournament record.
Local high school senior Tony Tang 7d (top right) was the only four-game winner in the tournament's A division and claimed the $100 1st place prize, while Cornell University students Jiuheng He 5d and Shao-Ting Ho 4d took home the prize money for 2nd and 3rd place, respectively.
Thirteen-year-old Liya Luk 2k (bottom right), of Syracuse, swept all four of her games and won the B division. Syracuse high-school student Sheng Yuan Lin 5k and Buffalo resident Patrick Wesp 7k both had 3-1 records and finished in 2nd and 3rd place in that division. Jimmy Li 22k (bottom left) was the C division's only 4-0 winner, while Casey Beach 13k and Benjamin Braun 21k each won three games and finished in 2nd and 3rd place in the division.
Allen Noe served as tournament director, and organizer Richard Moseson’s wife Chris once again made the tournament’s traditional Problem Cake
(top right), correctly solved by a majority of the players (black to play). Free refreshments for all were provided by Syracuse players, and at the end of the day, every player was able to select a new go book as a prize. Pictures from the tournament can be seen
here.