Fan Hui (; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player. 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. He was the winner of the

European Go Championship The European Go Championship or Congress (EGC) is the annual and main event of many organised by the European Go Federation for players of the board game Go. It consists of a 2-week open competition, one round per day, making a total of 10 round ...

in 2013, 2014 and 2015. As of 2015, he is ranked as a 2 dan professional. He additionally won the 2016 European Professional Go Championship.

AlphaGo vs Fan Hui

In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the Google DeepMind AI program

AlphaGo AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go. It was developed by DeepMind Technologies a subsidiary of Google (now Alphabet Inc.). Subsequent versions of AlphaGo became increasingly powerful, including a version that competed u ...

5–0, the first time an AI has beaten a

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professional player at the game without a handicap. 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." After his defeat, Fan Hui was hired to advise the AlphaGo team and provided a "sanity check" on Go theory. He served as a judge for the

AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol, also known as the Google DeepMind Challenge Match, was a five-game Go match between top Go player Lee Sedol and AlphaGo, a computer Go program developed by Google DeepMind, played in Seoul, South Korea between 9 and 1 ...

match and observed it in person. He later helped compile commentaries on the matches on AlphaGo's website. Fan is one of the authors of DeepMind's paper on

AlphaGo Zero AlphaGo Zero is a version of DeepMind's Go software AlphaGo. AlphaGo's team published an article in the journal ''Nature'' on 19 October 2017, introducing AlphaGo Zero, a version created without using data from human games, and stronger than any ...

published in the journal ''

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'' on 19 October 2017.

References

External links

Commentaries on AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol and AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo
written & compiled by Fan Hui 1981 births Chinese Go players Living people French Go players French people of Chinese descent Sportspeople from Xi'an Go (game) writers {{France-sport-bio-stub