There are currently just over 100 9 Dan players in the world. As they continue to improve they then join the Dan ranks, starting at level 1 and aim for (but rarely reach) level 9 Dan. As they improve the move towards the rank Kyu 1. It's said that Sedol is to Go what Federer is to tennis, yet, with 200 million people watching world wide, AlphaGo beat him 4-1 in a competition in Seoul, South Korea.Īll Go players are ranked an absolute beginner is ranked as Kyu 30. In March 2016, the AI then competed against legendary Go player, eighteen-time world title winner Mr. In 2015 it played its first match against reigning three-time European Champion Mr. Go has more than 10 170 moves.making it a googol times more complicated and varied than Chess and dwarfing the number of atoms in the Universe!ĭo you think a computer or Artificial Intelligence could ever master a game this complicated in your lifetime?Īmazingly, it already has. It is played extensively in SE Asia: professionals start learning the game as very small children and spend all their lives perfecting their ability. Thought to have originated in China over 4.000 years ago it did not become popular until it arrived in Japan around the year 500. You might think, ‘well a computer has conquered the most complicated game in the world there’s nothing left for them to do?’ and you’d be.wrong! There is a game with even more possible moves and variations and it is called Go. "There are even more possible variations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe." (If you rule out illegal moves that number drops dramatically to 10 40 moves. It is estimated there are between 10 111 and 10 123 positions (including illegal moves) in Chess. This is the Shannon Number and represents all of the possible move variations in the game of chess. Which is a lot. But.amazingly, there are even more possible variations of chess games than there are atoms in the observable universe. That’s between ten quadrillion vigintillion and one-hundred thousand quadrillion vigintillion atoms. ![]() There are between 10 78 to 10 82atoms in the observable universe. So why did it take so long? Remember the question at the start? The following year the improved DeepBlue beat him 31/2-21/2. That did not happen until 1996 when DeepBlue beat Gary Kasparov. In 1950 he wrote a paper asserting this possibility, but it wasn’t until the 1970’s that computers began to defeat humans at the game – generally poor players who made silly mistakes. Using maths and logic to understand the world around him, it wasn't long before Shannon began to wonder if a computer could beat a human at games, such as chess. ![]() The theory uses mathematics to understand the rules governing the transmission of messages through communication systems, applicable to everything from computer code, speech and music, to the dancing of bees. The question came from Claude Shannon, inventor of ‘ Information Theory’ in 1948.
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