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So the team beat Fan Hui, a rank 2 dan professional player. To put that in perspective, the highest ranked professionals are 9 dan corresponding to many hundred
by tgb 11y ago
So the team beat Fan Hui, a rank 2 dan professional player. To put that in perspective, the highest ranked professionals are 9 dan corresponding to many hundreds higher score in ELO. Still a long way to go to topple the world champion!
- tel 11y agoI'm not sure if that's always the best way of looking at it since I think most professional dan titles are accomplishment based instead of a measurement of comparative skill. That said, Europe is not the top of the world in Go playing, so while it's notable that Fan Hui represents professional play above beating 9ds on KGS, it may still be a long slog before it can approach Chinese, Korean, or Japanese professionals.
- karussell 11y agoI wonder how much they paid him as I'm not sure if this looks good in the carrier to be the first professional Go player loosing against an AI (?)
- Vraxx 11y agoI don't see how it should affect the perception of his skill. Presumably AlphaGo could beat any player ranked at his skill level or lower, in which case AlphaGo beating him says no more about his skill level than his ranking does.