> Last night I found that on the DeepMind channel they were explaining the game a lot for beginners.
Yeah, I think I caught some 15 minutes of this and stopped watching, maybe it got better later? I would have expected them to the introduction for beginners before the start of the real game, and they ended up skipping commentary on what seemed like pretty key choice in the early game to do so.
> Also, the AGA channel you just seem to have a split screen showing two people with headphones on talking over Skype? (Granted, one of them is Myungwan Kim, 9p, a super likeable guy - but Michael Redmond, 9p, is also super likeable.)
There were even some technical difficulties with the skype feed on a few occasions and I wouldn't call it great quality, but on the other hand I rather prefer the KGS virtual board - on which it's quicker to show the possible alternatives and easier to point out the key stones.
On this I do agree with you :) I found it annoying that there was not more analysis happening in the fuseki. I was like, "is it not important to be evaluating these moves?" I guess because the DeepMind crew didn't it meant that beyond pointing out that Lee Sedol tried to break out of opening patterns quickly and that the order of moves in the top-right joseki were considered sub-optimal for AlphaGo there was not much that urgently needed commenting on.
I switched to KGS at intervals to see what people were saying on the mirrored board kibitz. And the DeepMind commentary did begin to irritate at times but I feel they had to cater for noobs. Once the middle game got going it was fine though. Agreed on the KGS virtual board.
Yeah, I think I caught some 15 minutes of this and stopped watching, maybe it got better later? I would have expected them to the introduction for beginners before the start of the real game, and they ended up skipping commentary on what seemed like pretty key choice in the early game to do so.
> Also, the AGA channel you just seem to have a split screen showing two people with headphones on talking over Skype? (Granted, one of them is Myungwan Kim, 9p, a super likeable guy - but Michael Redmond, 9p, is also super likeable.)
There were even some technical difficulties with the skype feed on a few occasions and I wouldn't call it great quality, but on the other hand I rather prefer the KGS virtual board - on which it's quicker to show the possible alternatives and easier to point out the key stones.