Ten Years After AlphaGo, the World’s Best Human Took Two Stones — and Still Lost Game 1
Ten Years After AlphaGo, the World’s Best Human Took Two Stones — and Still Lost Game 1 Shin Jinseo’s showdown with the open-source AI KataGo is a snapshot of how far the machines have come. Games 2 and 3 are this week. In March 2016, AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol and changed Go forever. This week […]
Two Half-Point Games and a Jinx That Wouldn’t Die: Wang Xinghao Wins the LG Cup
China’s 22-year-old rising star beat both of Korea’s best on the way to his second world title — and kept a 30-year streak of history alive. Professional Go has a handful of tournaments where the best players from Korea, China, Japan, and Taiwan all collide, and the LG Cup is one of the biggest of […]
A 20-Year-Old Just Won Go’s Oldest Title — and Broke a Record That Stood for 55 Years
Fukuoka Kotaro becomes the youngest Honinbo in history, dethroning Japan’s top player in a deciding fifth game. On July 1, in the city of Kofu at the foot of Japan’s southern Alps, a 20-year-old sat down across the board from the strongest Go player in Japan — and stood up a few hours later as […]