Turochamp

Turochamp (aka Turbochamp[1][2]) was a chess simulation originally developed by Alan Turing and David Champernowne in 1948.[3][4]

Turochamp was the earliest known written computer game, but it was never actually implemented on a computer at the time since the code would have been too complicated to run on the computers that were then available. Turing tested the code in a game in 1952 where he mimicked the operation of the code in a real chess game against an opponent, but was never able to run the program on a computer.[5] Later Turing produced a second version of Turochamp.[4]

Garry Kasparov, chess grandmaster and former world champion, speaking at the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester on 25 June 2012.

In 2012, during the Alan Turing Year celebrating the centenary of his birth, the Russian chess champion Garry Kasparov played against a software version of Turochamp[6] and delivered a keynote address during the Alan Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester, England.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ Stezano, Martin (29 August 2017). "In 1950, Alan Turing Created a Chess Computer Program That Prefigured A.I." history.com. History. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  2. ↑ Clark, Liat; Steadman, Ian (7 June 2017). "Remembering Alan Turing: from codebreaking to AI, Turing made the world what it is today". Wired. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
  3. ↑ Copeland, Jack, Chapter 36, Chess (1953), Alan Turing. In Copeland, B. Jack, ed. (2004). The Essential Turing. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-825079-7.
  4. 1 2 3 Copeland, Jack; Prinz, Dani, Chapter 31, Computer chess—the first moments. In Copeland, B. Jack; Bowen, Jonathan P.; Wilson, Robin; Sprevak, Mark (2017). The Turing Guide. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0198747826.
  5. ↑ Donovan, Tristan (20 April 2010). Replay: The History of Video Games. Yellow Ant. pp. 1–9. ISBN 978-0-9565072-0-4.
  6. ↑ Neto, João (1 November 2013). "Kasparov vx Turochamp". YouTube. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
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