Tygem ( ko, 타이젬바둑) is an
internet go server owned by
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
n company TongYang Online. Popular in Asia, their website states that over 500
professional Go players use their service.
Tygem was founded as ICBL by
Cho Hun-hyun in 2000, and renamed to Tygem in 2001, invested by
Tongyang Group and
JoongAng Ilbo
''The JoongAng'', formally known as ''JoongAng Ilbo'', is a South Korean daily newspaper published in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the three biggest newspapers in South Korea, and a newspaper of record for South Korea. The paper also pub ...
.
In October 2015,
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 ...
from
DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies is a British artificial intelligence subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and research laboratory founded in 2010. DeepMind was acquired by Google in 2014 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Alphabet Inc, after Google's restru ...
beat the European
Go champion
Fan Hui
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 Champi ...
five to zero.
Eight million positions from human games on the Tygem server were used to train AlphaGo.
References
External links
Tygem(main Korean site)
Tygem Go(English site)
{{Go (game)
Go servers