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Cho defeats Deep Zen Go; Game 2 Tonight at 11

The legendary Cho Chikun 9P defeated Deep Zen Go in the first game of their 3-game match. "Zen played a pro level opening and middle game, but lost in the endgame," says Michael Redmond 9P in his game commentary for the E-Journal. (See below; click here for his AlphaGo commentaries) The program resigned after move 223. The match continues tonight, with live English commentary by Redmond and Antti Tormanen 1P on the NiCONiCO website (requires free registration). The Game 1 commentary drew 20,000 viewers, and Myungwan Kim 9P also provided commentary on the AGA's YouTube channel. Zen is a strong go engine by Japanese programmer Yoji Ojima with cluster parallelism added by Hideki Kato. Cho Chikun 9P is sometimes referred as the 25th Honinbo, an honorific title given for winning the Honinbo title five consecutive times. Cho Chikun 9P vs. Deep Zen Go: [sgf sgfUrl="http://www.usgo.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016.11.19_Zen_ChoChikun_G1-redmond.sgf" href="http://www.usgo.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/2016.11.19_Zen_ChoChikun_G1-redmond.sgf" class="alignleft"] [/sgf]