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MLily Cup
The MLily Cup (), officially the MLily Meng Baihe Cup World Go Open Tournament () is an international Go tournament. It is organized by the International Go Federation and the Chinese Weiqi Association. The tournament was created in 2013 and is held every two years. Overview The MLily Cup is played under Chinese rules with a 7.5 point komi. Each player has 2 hours of main time and five 60-second byoyomi periods, except in the finals, where the main time is 3 hours instead. The tournament has 64 players in a single-elimination format, with best-of-3 semifinals and best-of-5 finals. The winner receives 1.8 million RMB in prize money, and the runner-up receives 600,000 RMB. Past tournaments The 1st MLily Cup was won by 17-year-old Mi Yuting, his first international title, defeating Gu Li. The 2nd MLily Cup champion was 18-year-old Ke Jie, his third world championship within a span of one year. In the fifth and final game, Ke Jie as Black won on a half-point ko which counted towa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Go Tournament
This is a list of professional Go tournaments, for competitors in the board game of ''Go''. The tradition, initiated by the Honinbo Tournament in Japan, is for an event to be run annually, leading up to a title match and the award of a title for one year to the winner. Tournaments do not consist, generally, of players coming together in one place for a short period, but are spread out over time. International Open Major Defunct tournaments * Bailing Cup (2012–2019) is a tournament sponsored by the Bailing Group of China every two years. Its full name is "Bailing Aitou Cup", by which it is distinguished with a Chinese national tournament with the same name "Bailing Cup". The winner's purse is 1,800,000 CNY. * Tianfu Cup ( 天府杯) (2018) is a tournament sponsored by China. The winner's purse is 2,000,000 CNY. * BC Card Cup (2009–2012) was an annual tournament sponsored by BC Card. The winner's purse was 300,000,000 Won. * Fujitsu Cup (1988–2011) was a tournament s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Computer Go
Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays the traditional board game Go. The field is sharply divided into two eras. Before 2015, the programs of the era were weak. The best efforts of the 1980s and 1990s produced only AIs that could be defeated by beginners, and AIs of the early 2000s were intermediate level at best. Professionals could defeat these programs even given handicaps of 10+ stones in favor of the AI. Many of the algorithms such as alpha-beta minimax that performed well as AIs for checkers and chess fell apart on Go's 19x19 board, as there were too many branching possibilities to consider. Creation of a human professional quality program with the techniques and hardware of the time was out of reach. Some AI researchers speculated that the problem was unsolvable without creation of human-like AI. The application of Monte Carlo tree search to Go algorithms provided a notable improvement in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Yeong-hun
Park Yeong-hun (, born April 1, 1985), also known as Park Young-hoon and Pak Yeong-hoon, is a South Korean professional Go player. Biography Park Yeong-hun was born in Seoul. He is a professional Go player in the Hanguk Kiwon. He is the youngest ever Korean 9 dan, promoted when he was only 19 years old. Due to the new rules set by the Hanguk Kiwon, Park moved up from 1 dan to 9 in only 4 years and 7 months, which is the fastest progress ever. Much of this was due to him winning the Fujitsu Cup in 2004 when he was at 4 dan. This also earned him exemption from military service. His hobbies include tennis and playing Tetris ''Tetris'' () is a puzzle video game created in 1985 by Alexey Pajitnov, a Soviet software engineer. In ''Tetris'', falling tetromino shapes must be neatly sorted into a pile; once a horizontal line of the game board is filled in, it disa .... Titles and runners-up He ranks #8 in total number of titles in Korea. References External links Pag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Sedol
Lee Sedol (; born 2 March 1983), or Lee Se-dol, is a South Korean former professional Go player of 9 dan rank. As of February 2016, he ranked second in international titles (18), behind only Lee Chang-ho (21). His nickname is "The Strong Stone" ("Ssen-dol"). In March 2016, he played a notable series of matches against the program AlphaGo that ended in Lee losing 1–4. Lee announced his retirement from professional play in November 2019, stating he could never be the top overall player of Go due to the increasing dominance of AI, which he called "an entity that cannot be defeated". Lee shared in a 2024 interview, "losing to AI, in a sense, meant my entire world was collapsing. ... I could no longer enjoy the game. So I retired." Biography Lee was born in South Korea in 1983. He is known as 'Bigeumdo Boy' because he was born and grew up on Bigeumdo Island. He studied at the Korea Baduk Association. He is the fifth-youngest (12 years 4 months) to become a profession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li Xuanhao
Li Xuanhao (; born February 1, 1995) is a Chinese professional Go player. Life Li was born in Chongqing. He began to attend Go classes when he was five or six years old. At age nine, he left Chongqing for Beijing to study at the Nie Weiping dojo, living without his parents. He earned professional 1-dan rank in 2008, at age 13. After many years of professional competition, 2022 was a breakout year for Li. He reached 9 dan in April. He won two domestic tournaments, the Quzhou-Lanke Cup in April and the ('King of Kings') in May. His standings rose in the Chinese Weiqi Association's official rankings of Chinese players, eventually overtaking Ke Jie to become the number one ranked Chinese player in February 2023. In December 2022, Chinese player Yang Dingxin publicly suggested that Li cheated using AI, an accusation which the Chinese Weiqi Association soon determined was unsubstantiated. Yang made the controversial allegation at the time of a Chunlan Cup semifinal game between L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sina
Sina may refer to: Relating to China * Chin (China), or Sina (), old Chinese form of the Sanskrit name Cina () ** Shina (word), or Sina (), archaic Japanese word for China ** Sinae, Latin name for China Places * Sina, Albania, or Sinë, a village in Dibër County, Albania * Sina, Iran (), a village in Isfahan Province, Iran * Sena, Iran (), also romanized as Sina, a village in Bushehr Province, Iran * Sina Rural District, in East Azerbaijan Province, Iran * Sina District, in San Antonio de Putina Province, Peru People * Ali Sina (activist), pseudonym of an Iranian-born Canadian activist, founder of several anti-Islam and anti-Muslim websites * Elvis Sina (born 1978), Albanian soccer player * Ibn Sīnā (c. 980 – 1037), also known as Avicenna, Persian physician, philosopher, and scientist * Jaren Sina (born 1994), Portugal-born American basketball player of Kosovar origin * Melek Sina Baydur (born 1948), Turkish diplomat and former Ambassador of Turkey * Sina Asho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xie Ke
Xie Ke (; born 14 January 2000) is a Chinese professional Go player. Career Xie became a professional 1 dan in 2013, finishing in first place in the pro qualification tournament. In 2017, he finished in the top four in the 3rd MLily Cup, after being eliminated by Park Junghwan Park Junghwan (born 11 January 1993) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank. Biography Early career Park became a professional Go player in 2006. He won the Fujitsu Cup in 2011. Park defeated Lee Chang-ho to advance to the f ... in the semifinal. In a series of games played by Chinese Go AI "Golaxy" against 41 top Go players in May 2018, Xie won his game against Golaxy. This was the only victory by a human player; Golaxy finished the series with a 40–1 win–loss record. Golaxy played as White with no komi. A similar 30-game series in the previous month had resulted in a 28–2 record for Golaxy. In 2021, he became a finalist in both the 4th MLily Cup and 9th Ing Cup; rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Park Junghwan
Park Junghwan (born 11 January 1993) is a South Korean professional Go player of 9-dan rank. Biography Early career Park became a professional Go player in 2006. He won the Fujitsu Cup in 2011. Park defeated Lee Chang-ho to advance to the final of the 2012 Ing Cup, where he faced Fan Tingyu for the title. He lost three games to one. He won the 19th LG Cup in 2015, defeating Kim Ji-seok in the final, 2–1. 2016-2017: Ing Cup runner-up After a series of strong performances, in which during a span of 2 months he was able to defeat World No.1 Ke Jie in two consecutive international tournaments, namely the LG Cup and the Ing Cup, Park was able to reach the final of the latter, and the round of 8 in the former. Park faced Tang Weixing in the final of the 2016 Ing Cup, with the first two games being played in mid-August. The first 2 games of the Ing Cup were played, with Park winning the first by resignation whilst losing the second. In both games the margin of victory wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shin Min-jun
Shin Min-jun (; born 11 January 1999) is a South Korean professional Go player. Biography Shin Min-jun was born in 1999. His father Shin Chang-seok is a television producer-director (PD) of popular KBS dramas. Shin became a professional player in July 2012. He qualified as a pro in the same tournament as Shin Jinseo; the "two Shins" () have often been compared. He studied Go under Lee Sedol, staying at Lee Sedol's house from March to July 2013. He won six consecutive games for Korea in the 19th Nongshim Cup (2017–2018). He was finally eliminated in the seventh game by China's Dang Yifei, who went on to win five consecutive games, before Kim Ji-seok won the final two games to clinch the victory for Korea. In 2018, he took second place in the Globis Cup, an international U-20 tournament in Japan. He finished in the top four in the 23rd LG Cup, after losing in the semifinal to Yang Dingxin. He won the Globis Cup in 2019. In 2021, he won his first international championsh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ko (Go)
A ''ko'' (Japanese: コウ, 劫, ''kō'', from the translation of the Sanskrit term kalpa) fight is a tactical and strategic phase that can arise in the game of Go. ''Ko'' threats and ''ko'' fights The existence of ''ko'' fights is implied by the rule of ko, a special rule of the game that prevents immediate repetition of position, by a short 'loop' in which a single stone is captured, and another single stone immediately taken back. The rule states that the immediate recapture is forbidden, for one turn only. This gives rise to the following procedure: the 'banned' player makes a play, which may have no particular good qualities, but which demands an instant reply. Then the ban has come to its end, and recapture is possible. This kind of distracting play is termed a ''ko threat''. If White, say, chooses to play a ko threat, and Black responds to the threat instead of ending the ko in some fashion, then White can recapture the stone that began the ko. This places Black in the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Go Federation
The International Go Federation (IGF) is an international organization that connects the various national Go federations around the world. Role The role of the IGF is to promote the sport of Go throughout the world, promote amicable relations among members and improve world go organization. It does so by carrying out the following activities: * Organizing the World Amateur Go Championship and other international Go tournaments; * Publishing and distributing to members up-to-date information on world Go activities, through bulletins or on the IGF website; * Other activities pertaining to the international development of Go. Policies The IGF is an apolitical and non-religious organization, and strives to promote fair play amongst all players. History The Japan Go Association organized the first World Go Amateur Championship in Japan, in 1979. Many of the top Go players from around the world and representatives from the major National Go Associations attended the event. Its s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ke Jie
Ke Jie () is a Chinese professional Go player of 9 dan rank. He was born on August 2, 1997, in Liandu District, Lishui City, Zhejiang Province. Career 2008–15: Early Career and Bailing Cup Breakthrough Ke Jie started to learn how to play Go in 2003 when he was 5 years old and won his first national championship in 2007. He became a professional Go player in 2008 when he was 10 years old and was promoted to 9 dan in 2015. In January 2015, Ke won his first world title when he won the 2nd Bailing Cup, defeating Qiu Jun 3-2 in the finals. 2015–16: Two International Titles and Chinese No.1 In December 2015, he defeated Shi Yue in the 20th Samsung Cup finals to win another world title. In January 2016, Ke won the 2nd MLily Cup, defeating world renowned Go player Lee Sedol in the fifth round. According to South Korean 9 dan professionals commenting on the final game, the result hinged on a half-point ko and the peculiarities of Chinese scoring rules; however, others have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |