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Future of Go in Canada Panel Discussion 

3/18/2016

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Future of Go in Canada Panel Discussion
The Canadian Go Community gathers together to discuss the after-effects of the AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol Match

TORONTO, ON (March 17, 2016) – The Canadian Go Association and leaders in the Go community will be hosting a media conference and panel discussion on March 31, 2016. The panel discussion will provide insights into AlphaGo’s impact on the Go community in Canada and exchange views on the future of Go education and AI teaching programs.

The five match challenge began in Seoul on March 9 and ended on March 15 with Google’s AI securing four wins out five matches against the World’s Go Champion, Lee Sedol. Aside from pure strategy and tactics, Go also employs human decision making and intuition, which is one of many reasons why it was hard for computer programs to beat.

Millions of people watched the games and were awed by the power of AlphaGo’s learning ability. However, AlphaGo’s challenge is not yet over—the 18-year-old Chinese Go champion Ke Jie is planning to challenge AlphaGo. He holds an 8-2 record against Lee Sedol since late 2015 and is the only player to win two world championships since 2011.

DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis has also said about plans to test a version without any of the human training.

“Currently, AlphaGo plays with a very ’human’ style. There has been discussion of training AlphaGo without the 100K human game data set.  If it can be done, I'm wondering if AlphaGo will continue to play with such a human style, or if we will see many new opening patterns,” said James Sedgwick, President of Canadian Go Association.

AlphaGo has definitely popularized the game.  “AlphaGo has encouraged more people to learn and play Go, and will surely have more Go players challenge it,” said Johnny Lau, the president of the Toronto Go Club.

The Future of Go Panel Discussion aims to discuss the future of Go development and the future of human interactions with AI teaching programs.

More details:

What:        Future of Go: The After-effects of AlphaGo vs. Human Match

When:        Thursday, March 31, 2016
6:30 p.m.    Registration
7:00 p.m.    Remarks
7:30 p.m.    Panel discussions
                  Topic #1 The after-effects of AlphaGo for the Go community  
                  Topic #2 The future of Go education
                  Topic #3 The AI side of AlphaGo—what’s next for humans?
8:30 p.m.     Open Q&A

Where:        Hart House Music Room
                   7 Hart House Circle,
                   Toronto, ON

Who:        James Sedgwick,
                President, Canadian Go Association
                Manager, Aggregation technologies,
                Risk Analytics division, IBM Canada

                Ryan Li (1P),
                Professional Go Player, North America

                Joanna Liu,
                Go education program outreach
                Golden Key Cultural Center
        
               Johnny Lau,
               President, Toronto Go Club

                Ben Xu,
                President, of University of Toronto Go Club
        
               U of T Machine Learning (Guest TBA)
               
               Google Canada (Guest TBA)



ABOUT THE CANADIAN GO ASSOCIATION

The Canadian Go Association is the governing body in Canada for the game of Go. It is affiliated with the International Go Federation in Tokyo. The Canadian Go Association sponsors and sanctions tournaments and selects participants to represent Canada at the World Amateur Go Championship, the Prime Minister’s Cup, the International Pairs’ Tournament, the World Youth Tournament and other international tournaments.


ABOUT GOLDEN KEY CULTURAL CENTER

Golden Key Cultural Center Inc. is a vibrant organization that bridges North American and Asian Culture through creative educational programs. It has been a key player in organizing Go related events in the Greater Toronto Area, including the 2013 Canadian Go Open Tournament. Golden Key created the semi-annual Children’s Go Level Exam that hugely impacted the Canadian Go education system. It is committed to bringing Go players together to further the study of Go and to develop skills in Go.

                                                                         –30–

MEDIA CONTACT: Joanna Liu | 647.868.6001 | chineseculture.center@gmail.com​
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Become 1D in Go in six days?

2/25/2016

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On January 27th 2016, a Chinese man named Geng Wenbin announced that he can train adults with no prior knowledge of Go to become a 1 Dan level in just six days. It has shocked the Go World, with Geng shortly thereafter receiving the nickname, “真疯叔叔” (Translation: Real Crazy Uncle). He then partnered up with a Chinese reality TV show, The Brain (game show), and selected six candidates with super memory to participate his training.

Geng later appeared in Weiqi TV and other media explaining his logics and methods. Even after the one-hour long interview, the audience still had no idea how his training is different than regular Go dojo training. People wondered whether it just relies on people who had special abilities to start with. Geng claims that his methods have been tested repeatedly for the last five years and that he has seen success in October 2015.


The training will be hosted at a “camp” where candidates will study Joseki and Tesuji from morning to evening. Geng claims that the importance of Go is about understanding space and where to place a certain stone at the right time. (Most people’s reaction to this was, “Duh.”)

Former world champion Nie Weiping was invited to test the results of the candidates after training. The candidates who applied all have zero knowledge of how to play Go.

During a recent poll by the Chinese media, 59.6% of the population believe that it is impossible for even the people with photographic memory skills to achieve the 1D goal. 25.2% believe it is possible for people with special talent, but not for normal people. 15.2% believe that normal people can also achieve the goal in 6 days.


There isn’t any updated news about this challenge, or whether the training has started…. Many think it is just a PR stunt to gain publicity for his Go school. However, it has inspired many people to research teaching Go more efficiently. What do you think?


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