AlphaGo Beats Lee Sedol in Final Game
My rough summary of the match, informed by the various commentators and random news stories.<p>Game 1: Lee Sedol does not know what to expect.  He plays testing moves early and gets punished, losing the game decisively.<p>Game 2: Lee Sedol calms down and plays as if he is playing a strong opponent.  He plays strong moves waiting for AlphaGo to make a mistake.  AlphaGo responds calmly keeping a lead throughout the game.<p>Game 3: Lee Sedol plans a strategy to attack white from the start, but fails.  He valiantly plays to the end, creating an interesting position after the game was decided deep in AlphaGo&#x27;s territory.<p>Game 4: Lee Sedol focuses on territory early on, deciding to replicate his late game invasion from the previous game, but on a larger scale earlier in the game.  He wins this game with a brilliant play at move 78.<p>Game 5: The prevailing opinion ahead of the game was that AlphaGo was weak at attacking groups.  Lee Sedol crafted an excellent early game to try to exploit that weakness.<p>Tweet from Hassabis midgame [0]:<p><pre><code>    #AlphaGo made a bad mistake early in the game (it didnt know a known tesuji) but now it is trying hard to claw it back... nail-biting.
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After a back and forth late middlegame, Myungwan Kim 9p felt there were many missed chances that caused Lee Sedol to ultimately lose the game by resignation in the late endgame behind a few points.<p>Ultimately, this match was a momentous occasion for both the AI and the go community.  My big curiosity is how much more AlphaGo can improve.  Did Lee Sedol find fundamental weaknesses that will continue to crop up regardless of how many CPUs you throw at it?  How would AlphaGo fare against opponents with different styles?  Perhaps Park Jungwhan, a player with a stronger opening game.  Or perhaps Ke Jie, the top ranked player in the world [1], given that they&#x27;d have access to the game records of Lee Sedol?<p>I also wonder if the quick succession of these games on an almost back-to-back game schedule played a role in Lee Sedol&#x27;s loss.<p>Myungwan Kim felt that if Lee Sedol were to play AlphaGo once more, the game would be a coinflip since AlphaGo is likely stronger, but would never fix its weakness between games.<p>[0]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;demishassabis&#x2F;status&#x2F;709635140020871168" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;demishassabis&#x2F;status&#x2F;709635140020871168</a><p>[1]: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goratings.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.goratings.org&#x2F;</a>