I was really impressed by "AlphaGo - The Movie", despite not knowing much about Go, because the way they told the story, people from the Asian countries were so sure their champion would win a Go tournament against a computer, that were stunned into a new consciousness about artificial intelligence when the computer won. This started an arms race in AI is what I gather.

Edit: Full movie for free on YouTube: AlphaGo - The Movie | Full award-winning documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXuK6gekU1Y

I'm from Europe and was also sure the human would win.

The only thing that prevented me from losing a bunch of money on prediction markets was logistics.

That's a great documentary in general. Recommended for everyone :)

What's wrong with ko rules? I think it's a simple rule and ko fights are an interesting part of go.

Some ko rules only address a subset of repeating positions, and still allow for infinitely long games (sometimes ruling those as a no-result requiring the game to be played over).

The so-called superko rule simply states that no previous position can be repeated, which seems preferable.

excepting some crazy multi step ko that is possible in theory, it never happens in practice. There is nothing wrong with ko, it adds depth to the game. maybe they dont like ko becauase they have a weakness in their play and cant take advantage of them or defend against them. if you give your opponent a lot of ko threats they will end up winning most kos.

Respectfully disagree.