Thanks for your explanations, Mike Novack and Gomoto!
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Don't ask me, please I’m a measly ~10k, and I didn’t even have time nor “mindspace” to watch the games, not even to read the SGF of the first game thoroughly.
And IF I did, I’d just be like, “Oh.” … “Oh?” … “Oh!” … “Oh wow!”, etc.

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Thanks for sharing!

Looks like Cho Chikun won 2:1. My guess of 3:0 wasn't far wrong.

The third game seemed a lot like how Lee Sedol won, with a tesuji that the computer simply did not see/expect.

Heh, neither was mine with 1:2

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Seems like the least popular choice (which was the one I made ) was the correct one.

An aside for the language people. If a plurality is the most common without being a majority, is the least popular a singularity?

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Still officially AGA 5d but I play so irregularly these days that I am probably only 3d or 4d over the board (but hopefully still 5d in terms of knowledge, theory and the ability to contribute).

CONGRATS to Cho Chikun!

CONGRATS also to Hideki Kato and team for programming a great Go AI which was able to win one game against Cho Chikun!

THANKS to everybody who participated in this poll! (my bet was Cho Chikun : Zen – 1 : 2)

THANKS to everybody involved in the event!

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Oh, and CONGRATULATIONS, of course, to everybody who guessed the correct outcome of the match!
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And if majority means >50% does minority means <50% as well? So it's possible that one group can be both plurality and minority?

It can be <50%, or something smaller, depending on context. My own sense is that a plurality where there is no clear majority is not a minority, since it's the most common thing, but I don't know how much this is borne out by others. In the US, at least, there is also often mention made of minority-majority districts (for congressional representation, etc.) where a group that is a minority nationally is a majority within that subdivision.

Reminds me of how somebody once said, “Democracy is the dictatorship of the largest minority over the other minorities.”

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It can also be a majority and a minority at the same time. The majority of people in the US are female, but females are treated as a minority for hiring purposes. At least they used to me, and I assume still are.

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