The world’s best human Go player said playing Alphago felt like playing a Go God.
Google Deepmin AlphaGo became famous last year by defeatinghigh-profile Go player Lee Sedol 4-1, but now it has won three out of three games agianst the best player of Go world champion Ke Jie.
AlphaGo has become its own teacher, playing millions of high level training games against itself to continually improve. Deep mind is now publishing a special set of 50 AlphaGo vs AlphaGo games, played at full length time controls, which they believe contain many new and interesting ideas and strategies.
Shi Yue, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion said the games were “Like nothing I’ve ever seen before – they’re how I imagine games from far in the future.” Gu Li, 9 Dan Professional and World Champion, said that “AlphaGo’s self play games are incredible – we can learn many things from them.”
The first ten AlphaGo vs AlphaGo games are available here.
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