Sentence examples for beat professional from inspiring English sources

Employing novelty acts like One-armed Boid Buie, who averaged 18 points a game, and Robert Hall, known as Showboat for his fast passing game and flashy ball handling skills, the Globetrotters occasionally beat professional teams, including the Lakers, in exhibition games.

They're composing original music, for example, and beating professional players at complex board games with creative moves.

Even taking that into account, the speed was still extraordinary, with the general public even beating professional comics to the punchline.

Amateur side West Auckland FC won the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy in Turin in 1909, after beating professional sides from across Europe.

Both beat the professional odds.

When she was 20, she beat a professional marksman named Frank Butler in a shooting contest, and soon after they were married.

It has become the first computer program to beat a professional human player of the Chinese strategy game Go, without handicaps, on a full‑sized 19×19 board.

As a result, as recently as 2014, a leading developer of Go software estimated it would be a decade before a machine could beat a professional player.

"I don't think AI can beat [a professional player], at least not in my lifetime," says the 24-year-old.

On the other side of the table will be his opponent: Alphago, a programme built by Google subsidiary DeepMind which became, in October, the first machine to beat a professional human Go player, the European champion Fan Hui.

Basketball is a physical game — when my employer is paying me to take physical risks, not when Basic Bobby feels the need to prove (most often unsuccessfully) that he can beat a professional women's basketball player.