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AlphaGo Zero-AlphaGo Master: A Master misread?

"Although the openings in this series are pretty repetitive, the games themselves vary," says Michael Redmond 9p in his second commentary on the AG Zero games. "So in some, you'll see a half-point game, and in others we'll see Master crash. This game is interesting because it's the first time that Zero has black. Also, later in the game, I get the feeling that Master is acting like it did in the 60-game series earlier this year against top human players, where it thinks its winning and is sort of closing up shop and wrapping up the game. So I wonder whether it mis-read a tsume-go -- actually a 60-move sequence -- in this game." Click here for Redmond’s video commentary, hosted by the AGA E-Journal’s Chris Garlock, and see below for the sgf commentary. Video produced by Michael Wanek and Andrew Jackson. The sgf files were created by Redmond, with editing and transcription by Garlock and Myron Souris. [sgf sgfUrl="http://www.usgo.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017.12.01_Zero-MasterGame2.sgf" href="http://www.usgo.org/news/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/2017.12.01_Zero-MasterGame2.sgf" class="alignleft"] [/sgf]