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I went to a talk given by computer experts on the game of Go about 10 years before AlphaGo and the consensus was that the solution space was so large[0] that it was impossible to solve by a computer, whatever its capability, in the foreseeable future, by the methods known at the time. We now know that AlphaGo followed a somewhat new approach, but I don't remember that being obvious or expected back then...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_and_mathematics#Game_tree_c...

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There is a difference between being better than humans and having solved a game. Could you clarify what exactly the experts were saying? Everything in the Wikipedia article you linked seems to be talking only about solving it so I'm really curious.