It was expected Ke Jie 9P competes with DeepZenGo which is AI program developed in Japan, but Huo Sueming who came as a leader of China team said in public that Ke 9P can't attend it with his tight schedules.

But some people are curios that why Ke Jie 9P is so busy next March which is matched with the timing of upgraded AlphaGo will come back.

Below is the interview with Huo Sueming.

Q : Recently Chinese players are really good.

A : As China's economy is getting better time to time, people enjoy in the cultures more than ever before. I think this has some impacts for Chinese players to be better recently. But many people are saying that China and Korea would compete with each other in next 5 years.

Q : How would you forecast about China Baduk in the future?

A : The trend is for China recently, but it will come and back to other countries as well in the future.

Q : Who will be a representative of China to compete with DeepZenGo?

A : Ke Jie 9P has full of schedules next March, so other top rankers will compete with each other from 2nd to 9th in China ranking.