[jart]

Here's what Lee Sedol said when he retired:

> With the debut of AI in Go games, I've realized that I'm not at the top even if I become the number one through frantic efforts. https://en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN20191127004800315

He'd been playing Go professionally for 24 years. I never said he ragequit. He's too great a man to do something like that. Lee instead apologized for his losses, stating "I misjudged the capabilities of AlphaGo and felt powerless" while emphasizing that the defeat was his own and "not a defeat of mankind". I imagine being the Hector of humanity is quite a burden to bear. His professional ratings then took a dive for a few years https://www.goratings.org/en/history/ before he announced his retirement. To this day he remains the only human being who's ever won a single game against AlphaGo.

[Buttons840]

He's the last human to ever beat the strongest Go AI. I don't know if he's happy about it, but he'll have a special place in the history books because of that. And like Chess, the game of Go will continue to be played and loved.