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]

References

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  1. ^ "Tygem What We do". Tygemgo.com. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  2. ^ "石佛李昌镐投身网络业 与师傅曹薰铉合开围棋网站" (in Chinese). Sina.com. 20 June 2001. Retrieved 28 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion". BBC News. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
  4. ^ Silver, David; Huang, Aja; Maddison, Chris J.; Guez, Arthur; Sifre, Laurent; Driessche, George van den; Schrittwieser, Julian; Antonoglou, Ioannis; Panneershelvam, Veda; Lanctot, Marc; Dieleman, Sander; Grewe, Dominik; Nham, John; Kalchbrenner, Nal; Sutskever, Ilya; Lillicrap, Timothy; Leach, Madeleine; Kavukcuoglu, Koray; Graepel, Thore; Hassabis, Demis (28 January 2016). "Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search". Nature. 529 (7587): 484–489. Bibcode:2016Natur.529..484S. doi:10.1038/nature16961. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 26819042. S2CID 515925. 
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