Kevin Yang (7d, SDGC) went 5-0 to sweep the top boards at the 2021 King Cup California State Go Championship, held at the San Diego Chess Club in Balboa Park over Thanksgiving weekend. Shuaiheng Tao (7d, Dublin CA) and Kevin Meiqing Huang (5d, Yorba Linda) took second and third place with 3-2 records.
AGA members are invited to challenge the new California State Champion: throughout the pandemic, Yang has been accepting challenges to play on Tuesday nights on KGS in the San Diego Go Club room at 7 pm PST. Games are 30-minute/player (even or handicap), and are reviewed immediately afterwards by the participants.
2021 King Cup – U16 13×13 California State Go Champions 
Competition in the King Cup Handicap section 
2021 King Cup – California State Go Champion: (l-r): Ted Terpstra, former SDGC president; Kevin Yang, CA Champion; Henry You, VP-SDGC; King Bi, tournament sponsor 
2021 – King Cup – California State Go tournament winners
In the King Cup Open, six of the ten players tied for second place with 3-2 records. Trophy winners were determined by Go Clubs Online tiebreakers. Besides Tao and Huang, the others tying for second place in the King Cup Open were Shang Zhou (7d, SDGC), Yixian Zhou (6d, Corona), 2020 California State Go Champion Bo Luan (6d, Santa Barbara), and King Bi (4d, SDGC).
Over the course of the weekend, more than 70 go players from all over California participated in one of the four King Cup – California Go Championship tournaments, which included the State Championship (with both Open and Handicap sections), the U16 Girls Championship, the U16 Boys Championship, and the U16 13×13 Championship. This was the fourth State Go Championship weekend hosted by the San Diego Go Club.
Complete round-by-round results for all tournaments are available on Go Clubs Online on the ‘Results’ page found under the ‘Tournaments’ menu.
In the King Cup Handicap Sections, first place winners were:
Division I: Jaewoo Go Park (1k, San Jose)
Division 2: Arunas Rudvalis (6k, SDGC)
Division 3: Jiaying Wei (9k, SDGC)
King Cup – 2021 California State U16 Girls Go Championship winner:
Angelina Zhao (4k, Irvine)
King Cup – 2021 California State U16 Boys Go Championship winner:
Zhenxuan Liu (1d, SDGC)
King Cup – 2021 California State U16 13×13 Go Championship winner:
Anna Zhou (9k, SDGC)
Special recognition trophies were given to Hai Li 5P, for being the tournament director in the three U16 tournaments, and Donovan Chen for being the youngest player in the U16 tournaments (6-years-old). He beat out another 6-year-old, Zoe Tan, by a few days.
All four tournaments were sponsored by a generous gift to the San Diego Go Club by King Bi. Rubio’s Coastal Grill provided gift certificates to its restaurants for all the youth players and their parents
Here are all the trophy winners from the four King Cup – California Go Championship go tournaments, November 27 & 28, 2021:
King Cup – 2021 California State Open Go Championship
1st Place – Kevin Yang (7.3d, San Diego)
2nd Place – Shuaiheng Tao (7.1d, Dublin CA)
3rd Place – Kevin Meiqing Huang (5.9d, Yorba Linda)
King Cup – 2021 California State Handicap Go Championship
Handicap: Division I: 1st Place – Jaewoo Go Park (1.0k, San Jose)
Handicap: Division I: 2nd Place – Patrick Lu (1.1d, Cerritos)
Handicap: Division I: 3rd Place – Andy Shunwei Zhou (1.3d, Corona)
Handicap: Division II: 1st Place – Arunas Rudvalis (6.2k, Oceanside)
Handicap: Division II: 2nd Place – Enrique Garcia (3.1k, San Diego)
Handicap: Division II: 3rd Place – David Baran (6.4k, Beverly Hills)
Handicap: Division III : 1st Place – Jiaying Wei (9.3k, San Diego)
Handicap: Division III: 2nd Place – Nick Liddington (10.3k, Escondido)
Handicap: Division III: 3rd Place – Lucia Moscola (10.1k, San Diego)
King Cup – 2021 California State U16 13×13 Go Championship
Handicap: 1st Place – Anna Zhou (9.5k, Corona)
Handicap: 2nd Place – Angel Shunying Zhou (4.9k, Corona)
Handicap: 3rd Place – Xiaomei Sunny Sun (6.7k, 欧文)
King Cup – 2021 California State U16 Girls Go Championship
Handicap: 1st Place – Angelina Zhao (4.4k, Irvine)
Handicap: 2nd Place – Xiaomei Sunny Sun (6.7k, 欧文)
Handicap: 3rd Place – Abigail Wanyu Chen (5.8 k, Yorba Linda)
King Cup – 2021 California State U16 Boys Go Championship
Handicap: 1st Place – Zhenxuan Liu (1.7d, Irvine )
Handicap: 2nd Place – Jason He (3.5d, Cupertino)
Handicap: 3rd Place – Tom Liu (5.5k, Irvine)
photos by Hai Li and Jaiying Wei; report by Ted Terpstra, former SDGC president; editing by Kyle Fenimore.
