08-14 Computer beats professional

The Korean professional Kim MyungWan, 8p lost a handicap 9 game against MoGo. Citation: "For the very first time in history, and after 40 years of research, a program defeated a professional Go player in a 9 stones handicap game. (...) The match involved the collaboration between French researchers, who developed most of the software, and Dutch researchers, who provided the cutting-edge Supercomputer Huygens and contributed to the code. 'MoGo played really well,' said Kim, who estimated its current strength at '2 or maybe 3 dan,' though he noted that the program — which had a processing power more than 1000 times higher than the chess program Deep Blue — 'made some 5-dan moves.'"