Chart: Median first crosscut over time
For each year, I have calculated the median for the move number on which the first crosscut occurred, over all games for that year.
Openings of the AI age
I wrote a program that takes thousands of pro-level games, extracts the first twenty moves and assembles them in a single tree. Here I have chosen games from 2016 – the year that AlphaGo made its impact – to 2019 so we can study what kind of openings are played in the AI age.
Go tournaments per country over time
This visualization shows the number of Go tournaments in European countries over the years.