Fan Hui
{{short description|Chinese-born French Go player (born 1981)|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Infobox go player
| name=Fan Hui
| fullname=
| image=FanHui.jpg
| caption= Fan Hui winning for the 5th time at the Paris Meijin in 2005
| chinese=樊麾
| pinyin=Fán Huī
| birth_date={{Birth date and age|df=yes|1981|12|27}}
| birth_place=Xi'an, Shaanxi, China{{cite web|url=http://www.guancha.cn/Science/2016_01_28_349569.shtml|title=谷歌围棋人工智能击败职业棋手 樊麾：不犯错的对手太可怕|publisher=Guancha.cn|date=28 January 2016|accessdate=20 October 2017|language=Chinese}}
| residence=France
| teacher=
| pupil=
| turnedpro=1996
| rank=professional 2 dan
| affiliation=
}}
Fan Hui ({{zh|c=樊麾|p=Fán Huī}}; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player.{{cite web |url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/go/2016-01-28/doc-ifxnzanh0214388.shtml|title=围棋人工智能面临最后瓶颈 PK李世石看好谁？|trans-title=Who was the Go AI's final challenger?|website=Sina|date=28 January 2016|accessdate=29 January 2016|language=Chinese}} Becoming a professional Go player in 1996, Fan moved to France in 2000 and became the coach of the French national Go team in 2005.{{cite web|url=http://njcb.jschina.com.cn/mp3/html/2014-03/28/content_977475.htm|title=围棋不只是中日韩争霸,"荒漠地带"蕴藏火苗|publisher=Nanjing Chenbao|date=28 March 2014|access-date=28 January 2016|language=Chinese|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131050126/http://njcb.jschina.com.cn/mp3/html/2014-03/28/content_977475.htm|archive-date=31 January 2016}} He was the winner of the European Go Championship in 2013, 2014{{cite web|url=http://sports.sina.com.cn/go/2015-01-18/17327487775.shtml|title=第26届法国围棋大会交流与文化探索夏令营规程|publisher=Sina.com|date=18 January 2015|accessdate=28 January 2016|language=Chinese}} and 2015.{{citation |url=http://egc2015.cz/sites/default/files/Results_European_Championship.pdf |title=59th WeiqiTV European Go Congress |publisher=European Go Congress |accessdate=28 January 2016}} As of 2015, he is ranked as a 2 dan professional. He additionally won the 2016 European Professional Go Championship.[http://senseis.xmp.net/?EuropeanProfessionalGoChampionship 1st European Professional Go Championship]. Accessed February 18, 2016.
AlphaGo vs Fan Hui
{{main|AlphaGo versus Fan Hui}}
In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the Google DeepMind AI program AlphaGo 5–0, the first time an AI has beaten a human professional player at the game without a handicap.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35420579 |title=Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion - BBC News |newspaper=BBC |author= |date=27 January 2016|accessdate=28 January 2016}}{{citation |url=http://www.nature.com/news/go-players-react-to-computer-defeat-1.19255 |title=Go players react to computer defeat |author=Elizabeth Gibney |date=27 January 2016 |journal=Nature |doi=10.1038/nature.2016.19255|s2cid=146868978 }} Fan described the program as "very strong and stable, it seems like a wall. ... I know AlphaGo is a computer, but if no one told me, maybe I would think the player was a little strange, but a very strong player, a real person."
After his defeat, Fan Hui was hired to advise the AlphaGo team and provided a "sanity check" on Go theory. He served as a judge for the AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol match and observed it in person. He later helped compile commentaries on the matches on AlphaGo's website.{{Cite web |url=https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/alphago-games-english/ |title=Commentaries on AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol and AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo |access-date=2017-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160912143957/https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/alphago-games-english/ |archive-date=2016-09-12 |url-status=dead }}
Fan is one of the authors of DeepMind's paper on AlphaGo Zero published in the journal Nature on 19 October 2017.{{cite journal |first1=David |last1=Silver|author-link1=David Silver (programmer)|first2= Julian|last2= Schrittwieser|first3= Karen|last3= Simonyan|first4= Ioannis|last4= Antonoglou|first5= Aja|last5= Huang|author-link5=Aja Huang|first6=Arthur|last6= Guez|first7= Thomas|last7= Hubert|first8= Lucas|last8= Baker|first9= Matthew|last9= Lai|first10= Adrian|last10= Bolton|first11= Yutian|last11= Chen|author-link11=Chen Yutian|first12= Timothy|last12= Lillicrap|first13=Hui|last13= Fan|first14= Laurent|last14= Sifre|first15= George van den|last15= Driessche|first16= Thore|last16= Graepel|first17= Demis|last17= Hassabis |author-link17=Demis Hassabis|title=Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge|journal=Nature|issn= 0028-0836|pages=354–359|volume =550|issue =7676|doi =10.1038/nature24270|pmid=29052630|date=19 October 2017|s2cid=205261034|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10045895/1/agz_unformatted_nature.pdf}}{{closed access}}
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20160912143957/https://deepmind.com/research/alphago/alphago-games-english/ Commentaries on AlphaGo vs. Lee Sedol and AlphaGo vs. AlphaGo], written & compiled by Fan Hui
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Category:French people of Chinese descent