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by bainsfather 3751 days ago
You are correct. They used the large number of amateur games from the KGS Go server.

By the way, AlphaGo has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaGo

And the Nature paper is: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v529/n7587/full/nature1... (paywalled, but scihub can get it for you). The paper is fairly readable, and worth having a look at if you are interested in this topic.