| Fan Hui | |
|---|---|
 Fan Hui winning for the 5th time at the Paris Meijin in 2005 | |
| Chinese | 樊麾 |
| Pinyin | Fán Huī |
| Born | (1981-12-27)27 December 1981 (age 43) Xi'an,Shaanxi,China[1] |
| Residence | France |
| Turned pro | 1996 |
| Rank | professional 2 dan |
Fan Hui (Chinese:樊麾;pinyin:Fán Huī; born 27 December 1981) is a Chinese-born FrenchGo player.[2] 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.[3] He was the winner of theEuropean Go Championship in 2013, 2014[4] and 2015.[5] As of 2015, he is ranked as a2 dan professional.[5] He additionally won the 2016 European Professional Go Championship.[6]
In October 2015, Fan was defeated by the GoogleDeepMind AI programAlphaGo 5–0, the first time an AI has beaten ahuman professional player at the game without a handicap.[7][8] 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."[8]
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 theAlphaGo versus Lee Sedol match and observed it in person. He later helped compile commentaries on the matches on AlphaGo's website.[9]
Fan is one of the authors of DeepMind's paper onAlphaGo Zero published in the journalNature on 19 October 2017.[10]
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