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Myungwan Kim 9P to Analyze Fan Hui-AlphaGo games this Friday

Myungwan Kim 9P will analyze the Fan Hui-AlphaGo games on the AGA YouTube and TwitchTV channels this Friday at 9p EST (6p PST). And for the first time, the broadcast will be simulcast on weiqitv.com in China. Yesterday's news that Google's go-playing AI, AlphaGo, had swept Fan Hui 2P 5-0 rocketed around the world, receiving international coverage including write-ups in the New York Times, Bloomberg News, the BBC, Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, Wired, NPR and blowing up on the AGA's  Facebook and Twitter feeds.

 "I was shocked at how Alphago played," Kim (left) told the E-Journal. "It played like a human professional. I am sad that this computer program might beat me, but I don't think it can beat Lee Sedol. I will tell you why in my commentary." Google DeepMind, the British artificial intelligence company which developed AlphaGo, has issued a challenge to Lee Sedol 9P from South Korea, the top player in the world for much of the last 10 years, to play a 5-game, million-dollar match in March. Andrew Jackson will host the livestream broadcast.