I think it was mentioned that Master was playing all of its moves in almost
exactly 5-second increments, even trivial forcing move responses, which was
one of the things that led people to believe it was an AI. If that's true,
AlphaGo was basically playing under a time-handicap.

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:08 PM, "Ingo Althöfer" <3-hirn-ver...@gmx.de>
wrote:

> Hi Richard,
>
> > ... can somebody please update me (us?) a
> > little on these 60 games. How strong were
> > the opponents?
>
> they were all strong pro players. Ke Jie (humanity's last hope
> in the eyes of several go players) also played three of the
> games.
>
> Thinking times were small base times plus 3 byoyomi periods of
> 30 seconds each.
>
> ****************************************************
> I remember the nice A Capella Song on Alpha Go from
> March 2016 (only the first 30 seconds are relevant):
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh_mfGo183Y
>
> From the text:
> >> AlphaGo! AlphaGo! ...
> >> Ruler of the board ...
> >> We welcome our silicon overlord.
>
> Originally it was "overlords", but at the moment we have only one.
>
> Ingo.
>
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