Go Match with Robot

Last year’s winner Park Dong-ju (second from left) and runner-up Lim Gyeong-chan (right) have a match with “DolBaram,” the only artificial intelligence game program in South Korea.
Last year’s winner Park Dong-ju (second from left) and runner-up Lim Gyeong-chan (right) have a match with “DolBaram,” the only artificial intelligence game program in South Korea.

 

Hanwha Life held the world’s largest children’s Go competition at the Cypress Room of the 63 building in Seoul on July 13.

Amid much attention paid to the “human versus robot” match, a special event in the 16th Hanwha Life Cup World Children Baduk Championship, the result was human’s victory. The players representing humans were the champion Park Dong-ju aged 11 and the runner-up Im Kyung-chan aged 10 in the rank player group competition last year, while their robot opponent was DolBaram, a Go program.

The Go player Park defeat DolBaram in the first and second rounds, but Lim recorded one win and one loss. He lost the first match fighting a hard battle, and then won the second over the AI by a wide margin.

DolBaram uses the US-based Amazon Web Services Cloud platform and is capable of counting 1 million numbers within 30 seconds. It runs in the same way as Alpha Go developed by Google, which makes moves only with higher probability of winning without counting all the possible occasions. The Korean-authored Go software took the first place in the Mylin Valley 1st the World Computer Weiqi Tournament held in China last year, and beat ninth grader (dan) Cho Chi-hoon in a four stone handicap game.

 

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