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The lists below comprise the top title-winning professional Go players. International Majors. As of 21 August 2024 # Nat. Player Total 1: Lee Changho: 17: 2: Lee ...
Known for spreading Go around the world. Catalin Taranu: 1973– 5p: One of Romania's best players and a pro in Japan. Affiliate of the Nihon Ki-In. Alexandre Dinerchtein: 1980– 3p: The first Russian professional Go player. Affiliate of the Hanguk Kiwon. Svetlana Shikshina: 1980– 3p: The first Russian professional Go player among Alexandre ...
Lee Sedol is a professional Go player of 9 dan rank [34] and is one of the strongest players in the history of Go. He started his career in 1996 (promoted to professional dan rank at the age of 12), winning 18 international titles since then. [35] He is a "national hero" in his native South Korea, known for his unconventional and creative play ...
Google's AI star, AlphaGo, wins again. It bested Ke Jie, the world's best Go player, by just half a point -- the closest margin possible. After the match, Google's DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis ...
Lee was born in South Korea in 1983. He is known as 'Bigeumdo Boy' because he was born and grew up on Bigeumdo Island. [5] He studied at the Korea Baduk Association.He is the fifth-youngest (12 years 4 months) to become a professional Go player in South Korean history behind Cho Hun-hyun (9 years 7 months), Lee Chang-ho (11 years 1 months), Cho Hye-yeon (11 years 10 months) and Choi Cheol-han ...
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. [1] In January 2015, Ke won his first world title when he won the 2nd Bailing Cup, defeating Qiu Jun 3-2 in the finals. [2]
AlphaGo versus Ke Jie was a three-game Go match between the computer Go program AlphaGo Master and current world No. 1 ranking player Ke Jie, being part of the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, China, played on 23, 25, and 27 May 2017. [1] AlphaGo defeated Ke Jie in all three games. [2]
Chen Yaoye was born in Beijing, China. He is a young Go player who, at the age of 16, had already beaten Lee Chang-ho, arguably the best Go player in the world. He has won a title, the 2005 National Go Individual with a record of 7 wins and 2 losses. At the time he was 15 years and 9 months of age, the youngest Chinese player to win the tournament.