MOGO BEATS KOREAN PRO (8P) AT USGC!

The computer played Black, took a nine-stone handicap against the highly-ranked professional, Myungwan Kim (8P), and beat him by 1.5 points. Kim estimated the program (MoGoTitan, playing on an 800-core European supercomputer) achieved an almost inconceivable rank of about 2 or 3 dan, according to the AGA E-Journal (Volume 9, #40) this evening.

Click here for the game record, with comments from the KGS peanut gallery.