I know that this is a mailing list and not a rumors pot. Nevertheless it is interesting, what was brought together by several detectives in the German computer go forum in the last two days.
Nie Weiping (9p) is the boss of one of the very best Chinese Go schools. On Thursday, his institution was visited by Google CEO Sundar Pichai. Incidentally, also the two world class players Gu Li (student of Nie Weiping) and Ke Jie were around. Here are some photos with text: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2016-03/31/content_24212688_3.htm Here is more pure text on the "event": http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-04/01/content_24229170.htm Interesting are the following two photos, taken in the school yard: http://www.sinaimg.cn/dy/slidenews/2_img/2016_13/820_1746362_694531.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ce-2-5DWwAE3iL7.jpg Photo 1 is more or less normal. But look at the kiebitz in the central background of photo 2. It is Fan Hui, pro player, employee of Google DeepMind and AlphaGo's victim back in October 2015. My speculation: Chances are good that we will see another AlphaGo match against some Chinese player(s) rather soon. Ingo. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
