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Computer mastery of the complex board game Go has long been seen as a landmark for artificial intelligence. Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat a professional player for the first time in 2015; now Tanguy Chouard, an editor at Nature, watched as the system took on its toughest challenge: playing one of the world’s strongest players, Lee Sedol, in Seoul.