Cho Hye Yeon and her ode to Lee Sedol

○● 2802 「Lee Sedol’s retirement」
-이세돌 9단은 참으로 위대한 기사였다.
One of the distinguished features that the retired Lee Sedol 9dan has his own style of Baduk and unique sense of dealing with important games. Even if he made 9.8 billion won during his professional life, the force that sustained him was the Hungry spirit. As a natural matchmaker, he knew how to optimize himself before a big game.
Lee Sedol 9dan was a wild fighter, and magically transformed his unique opening which was considered as relatively bad. He won the matches in his own way, becoming an unbeatable human who broke down Alphago, and at the same time in 2019, he became one of the players who had been spotted by AI.
His choice, once again, surprised everyone including myself. I think that the retirement of Lee Sedol 9dan was earlier than I thought, but an average person like myself will not know or understand his big picture. However, calling the inner strength that Lee Sedol 9dan showed as ‘Hungry spirit’ does not mean to reduce his life and baduk philosophy. His unique world, including the Hungry spirit, is something that only the master who has reached the end of the universe can know, and Lee Sedol has left something, like the trail of humanity to his junior players.
I was, like a flash, obsessed with what it really was.
I am not a native English speaker, so I really got confused by some words. Though, I figured out what won means, and that matchmaker is not the meaning I was used to.
I still need to understand how he broke down AG. I would have said that he kneeled it, once. I still need to understand what means to be spotted by AI.
November 26, 2019 Tuesday at 9:01 pm