This is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981679

FYI, Fan Hui, the current European Go champion that Google DeepMind defeated, is ONLY a 2nd Dan Go player. The Highest Dan ranking in Go is 9th Dan! [1]

[1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_Hui

Put that into perspective for us...if a 2nd Dan player competed against a 9th Dan 100 times, what would be the expected outcome?

Probably better to link here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_professional#Discrepancies_...

The difference between an amateur 2D and 9D is not the same as the difference between a professional 2P and 9P.

Link to the paper mentioned in the article: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-data/assets/papers/d...

Note that the games were played even and the results were terrifyingly dominant - 5-0.

Any ideas on the computing requirements at run time?

Amazing and impressive!