Professional Go handicaps were a system developed in Japan, in the Edo period, for handicapping professional players of the game of Go against each other...

advantage conferred by the handicap, smaller handicaps are used on smaller Go boards (most commonly 13×13 and 9×9). The per-rank handicap is therefore reduced...

A Go professional is a professional player of the game of Go. The minimum standard to acquire a professional diploma through one of the major Go organisations...

known as the handicap. In the race itself, the participants do not all start at the same "Go"; the starts are staggered, based on the handicaps. The slowest...

number of handicap stones required. Professional dan ranks go up to 9th dan, but the strength difference between a 1st dan and a 9th dan professional is generally...

The Right Lance handicap is smaller than the currently official (left) Lance handicap. The Silver handicaps are unofficial handicaps designed to be a...

refer to: In the board game Go, a game whose loss may alter a player's handicap or decide a match: see Professional go handicaps In the sport of sumo, facing...

giving handicaps of 25–30 stones, an enormous handicap that few human players would ever take. There was a case in the 1994 World Computer Go Championship...

5.5 points in 1974. In 2002, the Japanese Go Association again increased the komi value to 6.5. Handicaps are given by allowing the weaker player to...

another. Better players are those with the lowest handicaps. Historically, rules relating to handicaps have varied from country to country with many different...

This is a list of professional Go tournaments, for competitors in the board game of Go. The tradition, initiated by the Honinbo Tournament in Japan, is...

(Chinese-born) player Go Seigen (Chinese: Wu Qingyuan), who scored 80% in these matches and beat down most of his opponents to inferior handicaps, and Minoru Kitani...

without a handicap. In 2012, the software program Zen, running on a four PC cluster, beat Masaki Takemiya (9p) twice at five- and four-stone handicaps. In 2013...

Go proverbs are traditional proverbs relating to the game of Go, generally used to help one find good moves in various situations during a game. They...

point in a game. A divine move is singular—it is of such rarity that a professional Go player might reasonably hope to play a single such move in a lifetime...

determined by the Go organization or the tournament director, is given to the second player (White) in an even game (without handicaps) to make up for first-player...

The game of Go has simple rules that can be learned very quickly but, as with chess and similar board games, complex strategies may be employed by experienced...

used for the winner of the Honinbo Tournament, which is now an annual professional Go event in Japan. It is run under the titleholder system, meaning that...

Go equipment refers to the board, stones (playing pieces), and bowls for the stones required to play the game of Go. The quality and materials used in...

professional with handicaps of four or five stones. Canadian AI specialist Jonathan Schaeffer, commenting after the win against Fan, compared AlphaGo...

very different and experimental style called shinfuseki dominated professional go, at least for the younger players from around 1936 there was a compromise...

the Muromachi period (1336–1573), potentates employed semi-professional Go players, called Go-uchi (碁打ち) or Jouzu (上手) who competed against other clans...

GNU Go is a free software program by the Free Software Foundation that plays Go. Its source code is quite portable, and can be easily compiled for Linux...

always taking Black, a handicap equivalent to two professional ranks, in extreme cases. For details see professional go handicaps. An uchikomi jūbango was...

In go and shōgi, a jōseki or jouseki (kanji characters 定石 for go, 定跡 for shōgi) is the studied sequences of moves for which the result is considered balanced...

reports, South Korean Go professional Lee Sedol said, "The previous version of AlphaGo wasn’t perfect, and I believe that’s why AlphaGo Zero was made." On...

southeast China, Go Seigen did not start learning Go until he was nine, a relatively late age for a professional (Honinbo Dosaku first learned go at seven and...

other Go-playing programs include score estimation; support for small boards, arbitrary values of komi, and handicaps; and the ability to use various Go rulesets...

current professional Honinbo and the Amateur Honinbo. "The Pieter Mioch Interviews - Go Seigen (Part 2)". "The Pieter Mioch Interviews - Go Seigen (Part...

Ehrenfest, history of artificial intelligence, and Lee Sedol's Go match against AlphaGo. The book received mostly positive reviews from critics. John von...