Go, going, gone?

Chess has fallen, draughts has been jumped and now a new algorithm has professionals losing the ancient Chinese game of Go to computers for the first time

By Robert Blincoe / THE GUARDIAN , LONDON

Fotland is still circumspect about when computers will dominate Go. “I’d say 20 years. There’s got to be several algorithm breakthroughs, and 20 years of Moore’s law (bit.ly/Go224).”

And then? The end of an era? Certainly. But the end of playing Go? Thankfully, as the evidence shows, we still enjoy the simple pleasure of just playing games.

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