Fine Art () is a
Go-playing computer program created by Chinese media company
Tencent.
Development reportedly started
in early 2016, around the time
AlphaGo's successes, first against
Fan Hui and later against
Lee Sedol, showed that
deep-learning neural networks
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combined with
Monte Carlo algorithms were effective in computer Go. Fine Art reached the strength of human professionals by the end of 2016.
In March 2017, it won the
Computer Go UEC Cup,
against a field that included
Zen,
Crazy Stone and 27 others. AlphaGo did not participate. After its win, it played an exhibition game against
Ichiriki Ryo, the Japanese 7-dan professional Go player. This game was played without handicap, and Fine Art won by resignation.
Fine Art has played many games on Fox, an
Internet Go server, including several victories over
Ke Jie, the world-number-1 Go player.
In the final match of the first AI Ryusei, Fine Art defeated DeepZenGo and won the championship on 10 December 2017.
References
{{Go (game)
Go engines
2016 software