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This book is extremely frustrating. I want to love it. The topics are really important, but the writing is at times a bit unfocused. It is many excellent snippets that tie together and flow well at times, but seem to lead to unclear conclusions. One could entire books based on single passages and examples, but overall it feels like it lacks the narrative to make it a really effective.

Fan Hui, another seasoned Go player who had been the first professional to lose to the machine six months earlier, said of it: ‘It’s not a human move. I’ve never seen a human play this move.’ And he added, ‘So beautiful.’26 In the history of the 2,500-year-old game, nobody had ever played like this. AlphaGo went on to win the game, and the series.