Alpha Go beats world champ

If you’re an avid reader of The Week Junior, you might remember an article we published last year about a clever computer program named AlphaGo beating a human at Go – one of the world’s most complex board games. Well, AlphaGo has done it again – but this time it beat the world champion. Invented more than 2,500 years ago, Go is considered one of the most difficult games in the world. It is played with black and white stones on a board marked with a grid made up of 19 lines across and 19 up and down. The players take it in turns to place one of their stones on the board. If a player surrounds one of the other player’s stones with their stones, they can take that…

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