Eighteen players participated in the Massachusetts Go Association’s annual Skip Ascheim Memorial handicap Tournament held Sunday July 7 at the Boylston Chess Club.
There were no 4-game winners, so the five 3-game winners tied for first place, dividing the combined first second and third place $100 prize money equally. The winners were David Cho 5d, Javier Gonzalez 2d, Jonathan Green 2k, Sean Patico 2k and Earnest Lam 8k.
"It was nice to see Ralph St. Louis again," says TD Eva Casey. "He used to play in most of our quarterly tournaments during High School. Now he’s a high school teacher in Lowell. He’s on track to finish his master’s degree in biotechnology (something like that) next December. He has not played Go for years but I would not let him sandbag, even though he was rusty. He had to play at his official AGA rating of -6.8."
"Many thanks to Dan and Neil Ritter for hauling the equipment to and from the venue," Casey adds.