Chinese Go Player Gets One-year Ban For Using AI During National Competition (globaltimes.cn) 16
The Chinese Weiqi Association has issued a statement suspending a Chinese player from attending competitions of weiqi, more commonly known as Go overseas, for a year after he violated the "no use of AI" rules when participating in a national chess competition earlier that day. From a report: According to the statement, Go player Liu Ruizhi used an AI program during the first round of the Chinese professional Go Championship preliminaries, and his supervisors did not fulfill their supervisory responsibilities. The authority pronounced Liu's opponent Yin Qu the winner of the match and decided to suspend Liu from participating in professional competitions until March 15, 2023. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, competitions have been held online and the organizing committee requires each player to have a supervisor during matches. According to the rules of the competition, the use of AI is strictly prohibited during competitions. Players who break this rule will be banned for one year. If the player is a member of the national training team, they will be expelled from the team immediately.
Only a year? (Score:2)
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It's like using a motor scooter to beat Bolt's record--except that it's not as ludicrously obvious.
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Not really but to continue your attempt to understand, it's more like a stock car race where you add nitrous injection.
I am neither pro for or against drugs in sport. I think it would be entertaining for sure to see super steroid induced Olympics but I think they obvious need to be divided in divisions which doesn't eliminate the current issue in any way. More so it sets a bad precedent, in the classic "think of the children" way. This is especially clear because many Olympic sports include minors, so we ar
Well, big ego not so big skill... (Score:2)
Old story. Many people think it is perfectly acceptable to fake skills they do not have (or have to a lower degree). These people then often end up in positions they are not qualified for. Explains a lot of politicians and CEOs. This guy here just did the equivalent of doping, which I would say is sameful but does only limited damage. Now if we had 1-year bans for politicians or CEOs that claim more skill than they have, that would actually be a good thing.
“Me Chinese, me play joke, me go pee-pee in (Score:2)
“Me Chinese, me play joke, me go pee-pee in your Coke.”
Go or chess? (Score:2)
A go player playing in a chess tournament?
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Someone probably used Google Translate to get the story into English and then didn't care after that. Sounds par for the course for China.
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WeiQi means "surround chess" in English. I only know because I looked it up just now - figured there had to be a reasonable answer here. I wouldn't call it a mistranslation - unless you would say calling soccer "football" is a mistranslation. I would call Go a type of chess. Seems that both Go and Western Chess are descendants of an Indian game called Chaturanga. It would be no different from calling "American Football" simply "football" within a specific context.
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The qi in weiqi almost certainly meant board game before it meant specifically chess, and in either case weiqi is not descended from chaturanga.
AI is bad, mkay (Score:2)
I just love the idea (Score:2)
of a game having an official rule of not allowing an AI.
Some sports should take an example of this.