Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4

Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by Retric on Sunday March 13, 2016 @03:46PM (#11279055)

Best is around 10x that, but at the cost of their body and long term health. Nobody is playing professional football|basketball|baseball in there 50's, and even just 40 is pushing it. Where pro go players can 60+.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by rsync on Monday March 14, 2016 @12:43AM (#11281120)

Gordie Howe played in the NHL until he was 53.[1]

Not really refuting your statement, which is essentially true, but it's worth your time to read the wikipedia page.

He played on a professional hockey team with his two adult sons at one point(!). He played in the NHL in five different decades.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordie_Howe

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by Retric on Monday March 14, 2016 @09:52AM (#11282869)

Yep, it's interesting to see a few edge cases out there. There are a tiny number of people that came close to 50 in baseball:basketball:football.

  Julio Franco played baseball till 49.
  George Blanda played football till 48
  Nat Hickey played baseball till 45.

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Re:Lee Sedol Beats AlphaGo in Game 4 by gohrt on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @03:45AM (#11288103)

Interestingly, the world champions seem rather young.

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