Tygem Explained

Tygem (Korean: 타이젬바둑) is an internet go server owned by South Korean company TongYang Online. Popular in Asia, their website states that over 500 professional Go players use their service.^[1]

Tygem was founded as ICBL by Cho Hun-hyun in 2000, and renamed to Tygem in 2001, invested by Tongyang Group and JoongAng Ilbo.^[2]

In October 2015, AlphaGo from DeepMind beat the European Go champion Fan Hui five to zero.^[3] Eight million positions from human games on the Tygem server were used to train AlphaGo.^[4]

External links

• Tygem (main Korean site)
• Tygem Go (English site)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Tygem What We do. Tygemgo.com. 28 March 2016.
2. Web site: 石佛李昌镐投身网络业 与师傅曹薰铉合开围棋网站. Sina.com. 20 June 2001. 28 March 2016. Chinese.
3. Web site: Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion. 27 January 2016. BBC News. 16 January 2017.
4. Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search. Nature. 0028-0836. 484–489. 529. 7587. 10.1038/nature16961. 26819042. David. Silver. David Silver (programmer). Aja. Huang. Aja Huang. Chris J.. Maddison. Arthur. Guez. Laurent. Sifre. George van den. Driessche. Julian. Schrittwieser. Ioannis. Antonoglou. Veda. Panneershelvam. Marc. Lanctot. Sander. Dieleman. Dominik. Grewe. John. Nham. Nal. Kalchbrenner. Ilya. Sutskever. Ilya Sutskever. Timothy. Lillicrap. Madeleine. Leach. Koray. Kavukcuoglu. Thore. Graepel. Demis . Hassabis. Demis Hassabis. 28 January 2016. 2016Natur.529..484S. 515925 .