-- Google CEO visited International Sports and cooperated with chess master Nie Weiping to "Look for small chess pioneers".
On December 4, 2017, in the multifunctional event hall of the Wanguo Sports Center, No. 69 Bocheng Road, Pudong, Shanghai, the national youth Weiqi promotion activity and the opening ceremony of the Pudong Wanguo Branch of the Nie Weiping Weiqi Dojo are in full swing. The event was jointly initiated by Google and Nie Weiping Weiqi Dojo. Guided and accompanied by Zhang Tao, CEO of Wanguo Sports, Topix, co-founding partner Li Liqiang, and Jia Haibing, operation director of Wanguo Sports Center, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Google Greater China President Scott Beaumont, Nie Weiping Jiuduan, founder of Nie Weiping Weidan, and Zhao Zulun Sduan, CEO of Nie Weiping Weidan attended today's event.
The venue where this event takes place is the Universal Sports Center, which is designed and operated exclusively by Universal Sports. In September 2016, the Wanguo Sports Center was officially put into operation on the site of the former Africa Joint Pavilion of the Expo Park in Pudong New Area of Shanghai. With a total area of 35,000 square meters, the center innovatively launched five diversified and collaborative indoor comprehensive sports events, including fencing. This is the first comprehensive, multifunctional and modern sports Mall featuring sports training in China. Its design concept also reflects the sense of technology, color and movement.
AlphaGo, which was the focus of the event and defeated Lee Sedol and Ke Jie, is a representative of advanced artificial intelligence. Google had announced that AlphaGo would be retired from playing against professional players after its battle with Ke Jie in May. Now, AlphaGo appears in this conference as Go teaching software. Google wanted to prove that AlphaGo could teach people to play Go as well as play itself. It is this "Look for small pioneers of Go" activity, which is a public welfare activity bearing this mission.
It is understood that Google and Nie Weiping Weiqi Dojo jointly released the "Search for small pioneers of Weiqi" national youth Weiqi promotion activity, aimed at domestic 4-18 year old chess players, the Open will be held in 6 cities across the country, the top 200 outstanding young chess players will be awarded. Nie Weiping nine Dan hired Mr. Pichai as the honorary principal of Nie Weiping Ashram. At the same time, Mr. Pichai also mentioned that AlphaGo will be used as a teaching tool in Go training, and said that the development of the teaching tool has been basically completed, which represents the joint start of the talent development plan of both sides.
After the visit, Pichai said with great enthusiasm, "The World Sports Center is really an 'Amazing gym'. Currently, technology should help the overall development of sports. Google will also pay more attention to and launch the research and development of sports technology in the future." "When I visited the Weiqi dojo, I was deeply moved by the great passion that young players showed for the game. I sincerely hope that through this project, we can help discover and cultivate more excellent players of the next generation, create more wonderful games, and further explore the mystery and infinite possibilities of Go."
Nie Weiping ninth Dan said, "The technological revolution led by Google has not only played an important role in the development of professional Go, but will also provide an even more important role in the popularization of traditional Chinese culture such as Go. The young generation is the future and hope of Chinese Weiqi. We are doing the same thing with all nations to train children and cultivate the future. I look forward to more young people entering the world of Weiqi, entering the world of sports, feeling the unique charm of Weiqi as an excellent traditional Chinese culture, and opening up a more wonderful future!"
As one of the most well-known Weiqi training institutions in China, "Nie Weiping Weiqi Dojo", founded by master Nie Weiping, has been committed to promoting the popularization of Weiqi education and the promotion and innovation of Weiqi culture since its establishment 18 years ago. It has cultivated more than 50,000 Weiqi talents. Nie Weiping Weiqi Dojo and Wanguo Sports, both invested by Topix and Pathfinder Sports Fund, choose to combine Weiqi with fencing and other national fitness sports. The fundamental reason is that both sides jointly combine national fitness and youth sports training formats to meet the one-stop needs of family consumption on the basis of good service formats.
On the basis of cooperation between the two sides, this activity brings more space for daydreaming. Artificial intelligence helps the development of youth sports training, which is a good complement of emerging technologies to traditional Chinese culture. In the current consumption upgrade, sports can be said to be one of the best way of life, sports training is one of the best modern ways of education. To focus on youth development is to focus on the future. The combination of science and technology and sports training has brought more sparks of cooperation between different industries.
