AlphaStar defeats professional StarCraft II players

DeepMind said on 24 January 2019 that its AlphaStar system had beaten the professional StarCraft II players Dario Wünsch and Grzegorz Komincz, winning 10 of 11 games played under professional conditions in December 2018. It was trained by league play among versions of itself.

Why it mattered No machine had previously beaten top professionals at a real-time strategy game, where planning runs long and much of the board stays hidden from view.