Fan Hui
| Fan Hui | |
|---|---|
 Fan Hui winning for the 5th time at the Paris Meijin in 2005 | |
| Chinese | 樊麾 |
| Pinyin | Fán Huī |
| Born |
27 December 1981 China |
| Residence | France |
| Turned pro | 1996 |
| Rank | professional 2 dan |
Fan Hui (Chinese: 樊麾; pinyin: Fán Huī; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player.[1] Becoming a professional Go player in 1996, Fan moved to France in 2000 and became the coach of the French national Go team in 2005.[2] He was the champion of the European Go Championship in 2013, 2014[3] and 2015.[4] As of 2015, he is ranked as a 2 dan professional.[4] He additionally won the 2016 European Professional Go Championship.[5]
AlphaGo vs Fan Hui
In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the Google DeepMind AI program AlphaGo 5–0, the first time an AI has beaten a human professional player at the game without a handicap.[6][7] Fan described the program as "very strong and stable, it seems like a wall. ... I know AlphaGo is a computer, but if no one told me, maybe I would think the player was a little strange, but a very strong player, a real person."[7]
References
- ↑ "围棋人工智能面临最后瓶颈 PK李世石看好谁？" [Who was the Go AI's final challenger?]. Sina (in Chinese). 28 January 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
- ↑ "围棋不只是中日韩争霸,"荒漠地带"蕴藏火苗" (in Chinese). Nanjing Chenbao. 28 March 2014. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- ↑ "第26届法国围棋大会交流与文化探索夏令营规程" (in Chinese). Sina.com. 18 January 2015. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- 1 2 59th WeiqiTV European Go Congress (PDF), European Go Congress, retrieved 28 January 2016
- ↑ 1st European Professional Go Championship. Accessed February 18, 2016.
- ↑ "Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion - BBC News". BBC. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 28 January 2016.
- 1 2 Elizabeth Gibney (27 January 2016), "Go players react to computer defeat", Nature, doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19255