Tygem ( ko, 타이젬바둑) is an
internet go server
An Internet Go server is a server that allows players of the game of Go to play against opponents online. The two fundamental types of Go server are ''real-time'' servers and ''turn-based'' servers.
History
The first Go server that started o ...
owned by
South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
n company TongYang Online. Popular in Asia, their website states that over 500
professional Go players use their service.
Tygem was founded as ICBL by
Cho Hun-hyun
Cho Hunhyun ( ko, 조훈현; born 10 March 1953) is a South Korean professional Go player and politician. Considered one of the greatest players of all time, Cho reached professional level in Korea in 1962. Since then, Cho has amassed 150 profe ...
in 2000, and renamed to Tygem in 2001, invested by
Tongyang Group
The Tongyang Group, also spelled Tong Yang Group, is a South Korean conglomerate founded in 1957 by Lee Yang-gu, a confectionery businessman who had decided to expand into the cement industry. Over the following decades it expanded to include hold ...
and
JoongAng Ilbo
''The JoongAng'', formally known as ''JoongAng Ilbo'', is a South Korean daily newspaper published in Seoul, South Korea. It is one of the three biggest newspapers in South Korea, and a newspaper of record for South Korea. The paper also publ ...
.
In October 2015,
AlphaGo
AlphaGo is a computer program that plays the board game Go (game), Go. It was developed by DeepMind Technologies a subsidiary of Google (now Alphabet Inc.). Subsequent versions of AlphaGo became increasingly powerful, including a version that ...
from
DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies is a British artificial intelligence subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. and research laboratory founded in 2010. DeepMind was List of mergers and acquisitions by Google, acquired by Google in 2014 and became a wholly owned subsid ...
beat the European
Go champion
Fan Hui
Fan Hui (; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born French Go player. 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. He was the winner of the European Go Champio ...
five to zero.
Eight million positions from human games on the Tygem server were used to train AlphaGo.
References
External links
Tygem(main Korean site)
Tygem Go(English site)
{{Go (game)
Go servers