AlphaGo vs Lee Sedol: The Match that Changed the World of Go

Excellent analysis of these five games. I had watched Michael Redmond's commentary live when they were played, but this goes much more in-depth into the important moments, and has the benefit of months of analysis after the fact (we can now see that "move 78" wasn't miraculous at all, and AlphaGo still should have won if it hadn't bungled move 79).My only complaint is that, in a handful of the diagrams, the second digit of some of the move numbers are replaced by squares. It's some kind of weird formatting bug. It's usually pretty easy to figure out what moves were what numbers by seeing which numbers are missing ("there's no black 85 in the diagram, so that 8-square must be 85"), but it's still annoying.

Have only gone through the first game so far, but I found that on page 24, the diagram is missing moves 167-174. Will go through the other games soon, but just thought it could be fixed if you ever decide to do a second edition.I have enjoyed the commentary, though. Looking forward to seeing the other games.

Good text. Delivers not only just enough commentaries to understand the high level Go played in the match as it's full of good descriptions of the reactions and environment of this event. Yuan Zhou delivers very good books.

Depending on when you read this, I think this book is very insightful.

The rise of the machine

Not so much an analysis as a commentary. Clear diagrams, well written text, some discussion of variations and "why?"Every Go player knows about the importance of this series, the first time a computer (well, a ~1200 CPU supercomputer supercharged by a ~300 GPU parallel processing engine) played Go at a world class level. At the time of writing this review the first is now one of several.You won't really learn much about Go or AI by starting here.

Prinzipiell gut, aber ein grauenhaftes Englisch, und in der ersten Partie bereits ein grober Fehler in der Grafik. Ich bevorzuge eine Notation analog zu Schach.