KE Jie

People's Republic of China

Date of Birth: 2 Aug 1997

Age: 26

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.82/5'12''

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
Additional Information
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Go	Men's Individual	2
	Men's Team CHN China	2

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Preliminary Round - Group B 1	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Preliminary Round - Group B 2	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Preliminary Round - Group B 3	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Preliminary Round - Group B 4	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Preliminary Round - Group B 5	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Preliminary Round - Group B 6	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Quarterfinal #4	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Semifinal #2	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Individual Gold Medal Match	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Team Preliminary Round 1	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Team Preliminary Round 2	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Team Preliminary Round 3	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Team Preliminary Round 4	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Team Preliminary Round 5	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Team Preliminary Round 6	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Team Semifinal #2	Finished
	Hangzhou Qi-Yuan (Zhili) Chess Hall	Men's Team Gold Medal Match	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Occupation:

Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN

Languages spoken:

Shenzhen Longhua [People's Republic of China]

Yu Bin [national], CHN

He began learning go in 2003. (weiqi, 07 Jul 2020)

His parents wanted him to take up go to develop independent thinking skills and improve his concentration, so they sent him to an introductory class. (dfsports, 21 Apr 2022; sohu, 29 Jun 2021)

To compete at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, People's Republic of China. (sohu, 20 Apr 2022; weiqi, 09 Apr 2022)

He was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] of the Chinese Go League A three times between 2014 and 2016. (sports, 03 Dec 2016; huanqiu, 29 Dec 2015; sports, 28 Jan 2015)

Additional Information

General
AI MATCH
In 2017 he lost 3-0 to AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence developed to play go, in a match held at the Future of Go Summit in Wuzhen, People's Republic of China. AlphaGo had previously beaten Korean player Lee Se-Dol and a number of other professionals in online matches, and was retired by the research team after defeating Ke. "I knew from the very beginning that it was extremely hard to win. I just feel that I haven't played good enough, which is quite a pity. To me, it is a god of go, a god that can crush all that defies it. I've never doubted myself, I always felt I had everything under control, and I have a very good understanding of the game, but to AlphaGo, it's like, 'What's all this rubbish'. AlphaGo can see the whole universe of go, I can only see a small area around me." (CGTN YouTube channel, 28 May 2017; theverge, 27 May 2017; theguardian, 23 May 2017)

Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event