Anchor: A world champion and artificial intelligence will go against each other to battle in the game of Go, called "baduk" in Korean, in Seoul in March. Google's artificial intelligence(AI) AlphaGo has challenged South Korean champion Lee Se-dol in a match attached with one million U.S. dollars in prize money.
Our Kim In-kyung has more.
 
Report: World Go champion Lee Se-dol is set to face off against a computer in Seoul in March.
 
The match will be the second challenge for AlphaGo, a computer system developed by Google Deepmind, against a Go master.

Last October, AlphaGo beat European Go champion Fan Hui, five-nil.
 
Demis Hassabis, vice president of engineering at Google Deepmind, said AlphaGo's next opponent is Lee, who has reigned as the best Go player in the world for the past decade.
 
[Sound bite: Demis Hassabis – Vice president of engineering, Google Deepmind (English)]
"We are very excited about that. It is just one rung on the ladder towards solving artificial intelligence."
 
In 1997, chess champion Gary Kasparov lost to super computer Deep Blue.
 
Compared to chess, however, the rules for Go are more complex and there are more variables.
 
[Sound bite: Demis Hassabis - Vice president of engineering, Google Deepmind (English)]
"If you ask a great Go player why they played a particular move, sometimes they’ll just tell you it felt right. One way you can think of it is that Go is a much more intuitive game whereas chess is a more logic-based game."
 
It had been believed that it will take around 50 more years for artificial intelligence to beat a human champion in Go.
 
Lee Se-dol said he accepted the match because he thought it would be an important milestone in the history of the game.
 
The best-of-five games will take place between March eighth and 15.
 
The winner will receive prize money of one million U.S. dollars, or one-point-two billion won.  
Kim In-kyung, KBS World Radio News.