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Results8th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Sweden 2-2On 28th of February, Belgian team (Lucas +, Kwinten -, Nelis -, Gabriel +) made draw against Sweden. Complete results of the round: Present standings:
How strong are the home-made European pros ?The go server Tygem has just organized a match between Kim Seung-Jun (also known as "Blackie"), a famous 9 dan professional player, against the 5 home-made European pros (Ilya Shikchine, Pavol Lisy, Artem Kachanovskij, Mateusz Surma and Ali Jabarin). All games were played without komi (Kim playing white, of course). The final score is 3-2 for Kim (Ilya and Mateusz won). Conclusion: according to this result, it seems that "our" pros have really a professional strength: the handicap between top professional players and young beginning professionals is currently estimated to be of 1 to 2 stone/s. More detail here: http://www.eurogofed.org/index.html?id=99
European Youth championship 2017 results; Sinan Djepov, the Bulgarian go geniusMore than 200 young participants (among whom many Russian ones) played the European Youth Championship organized in Grenoble. There were 3 categories: Under 12 (92 participants !): winner was Ivan Klochikhine (RU, 4k) Under 16 (79 participants): winner was Oscar Vasquez (SP, 3d) (who used to play in Belgium some years ago), ahead of Valeri Krushelnytskyi (UA, 4d) Under 20: the all-Russian podium is composed by Vjacheslav Kajmin (RU, 5d) ahead of the great favourite Grigorij Fionin (RU, 6d) and Anton Chernykh (RU, 5d). Complete results here: *** Another point: did you know Sinan Djepov ?
Ilya Shikshin won 2nd edition of the professional European championshipIlya Shikshin won the 2nd edition of the "European pro European Championship", but only thanks to SOS tie-breaker. Ilya was already open European champion. There were 6 participants: the 5 "home-made (European-made) pros" (Pavol Lisy, Ali Jabarin, Mateusz Surma, Ilya Shikshin and Artem Kachanovsky)were joined by Alexandre Dinerchtein (Russia, 3p in Korea). Missing were the following European pros: Fan Hui (I have heard he decided to stop to play tournaments), Catalin Taranu, Svetlana Shikshina (plus, of course, the European pros who live in far east Asia: Maria Zakharchenko, Antti Törmanen and Diana Köszegi). Enjoy a thorough report here:
7th round of European team championship: Belgium - Croatia 3-1On 7th of February, Belgian team (Gerald -, Jan + - by 40,5 pts against a ex-multi European champion...well, in 1967 and in 1971...but still ! :-), Nelis + - by 0,5 point, oef/ouf -, Gabriel +) picked its 1st victory against the worst placed team, Croatia. This was an important victory...but Belgium is far from being saved... Complete results of the round: Present standings:
Interesting reflections on AlphaGoHere are: 1. The reflections of a dozen of Korean professionals on AlphaGo https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10210499878164941&id=1584704... 2. A video published by Hwang In Seong analysing Alphago's innovations (= heterodox moves): Enjoy ! :-)
6th round of the European Team Championship: Belgium - Denmark 0-4On 10th January, Belgian team (François -, Jan -, Nelis -, Gabriel -) has been crushed by the Danish one (0-4, all resignations !). Complete results of the round: Present standings:
"Now, I am the Master": the invincible bot was indeed a new version of "AlphaGo"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo#Unofficial_online_matches_in_late_... Ke Jie, supposedly the best player in the world, wrote: In a more positive way (?), great old champion Nieh Wei Ping: “Go is not as simple as we thought, there’s still huge room for we humans to explore. (...) Master is sent by the ‘Go God’ to guide humans.” Some articles (among dozens ! :-) http://www.wsj.com/articles/ai-program-vanquishes-human-players-of-go-in... https://qz.com/877721/the-ai-master-bested-the-worlds-top-go-players-and... In French: http://fr.euronews.com/2017/01/05/alphago-ou-la-machine-qui-fait-encore-... PS: personally, I am now curious to see how many handicap stones will need an human to beat "Master"
AI definitively far beyond human intelligence: a mysterious bot crushs dozens of pros, including top playersIt's over now. For sure. Bots have now become are stronger than humans: on the server "Tygem", a mysterious bot crushed dozens of pros one after the other, among whom top pros like Ke Jie, Iwama Yuta, and Park Junghwan ! The score is... 45-0 at the time I am writing these lines ! (03/01/2016) Ke Jie, probably the best player in the world, thinks this bot is much better than the AlphaGo version who/which played against Lee Setol in April 2016! We still do not know bot's identity: The only reserve: they are all quick games (but still...) Read more about this here: Here are the games: http://www.go-baduk-weiqi.de/masterp-schlaegt-go-profis/ PS: one thing is sure: it is not "DeepZen", who/which has been beaten sometimes...even if not often: its score on Tygem is 126-13... Happy new year (nevertheless ?) !!!!
5th round of the European team Championship: Belgium - Turkey 1-3Things are getting worse, as Belgium team (Lucas +, Nelis -, Gabriel -, Joost -) lost once again, this time against Turkey on 12th of December. More than ever, Belgium stay in the red zone. Complete results of the round: Present standings:
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