{{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<ref>{{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}}</ref> | teacher= | pupil= | turnedpro=1996 | rank=professional 2 dan | affiliation= }} '''Fan Hui''' ({{lang-zh|c=樊麾|p=Fán Huī}}; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player.<ref>{{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}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{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}}</ref> He was the winner of the European Go Championship in 2013, 2014<ref>{{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}}</ref> and 2015.<ref name=2015_euro>{{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}}</ref> As of 2015, he is ranked as a 2 dan professional.<ref name=2015_euro /> He additionally won the 2016 European Professional Go Championship.<ref>[http://senseis.xmp.net/?EuropeanProfessionalGoChampionship 1st European Professional Go Championship]. Accessed February 18, 2016.</ref>
==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.<ref name="MyUser_BBC_January_27_2016c">{{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}}</ref><ref name=gibney>{{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 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> 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."<ref name=gibney />
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.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>
Fan is one of the authors of DeepMind's paper on AlphaGo Zero published in the journal ''Nature'' on 19 October 2017.<ref name="Nature2017">{{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}}</ref>
== Books == In 2007, he published his first book in French: The Soul of Go: Shapes and Their Aesthetics, (''L'Âme du go. Les formes et leur esthétique'') in which he introduces the "fundamentals of Go" as well as the forms and aesthetics unique to the game.
== Publications ==
* ''L'Âme du go. Les formes et leur esthétique'', {{ill|Éditions Chiron|fr}}, Paris, 2007, <small>(ISBN 978-2702712030)</small> * ''Le go pas à pas. Les premiers pas, livre du maître et de l'élève'', volume 1, Chiron, 2010, <small>(ISBN 978-2702713419)</small> * ''Le go pas à pas. Deux yeux'', volume 2, Chiron, 2010, <small>(ISBN 978-2702713143)</small> * ''Le go pas à pas. Les coins, les bords, le centre'', volume 3, Chiron, 2010, <small>(ISBN 978-2702713150)</small>. * ''Le go pas à pas. Quatre formes'', volume 4, Chiron, November 2011, <small>(ISBN 978-2702712962)</small> * ''Le go pas à pas. Cinq proverbes'', volume 5, Chiron, 2013, <small>(ISBN 978-2-7027-1410-2)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==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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