Turing's Gambit ♕♔♖♗♘♙
One of the first tests of computer intelligence was whether a machine could play chess against a human. In 1948 Turing and the economist David Champernowne wrote the first chess algorithm - Turochamp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turochamp
Turing played a match against his colleague Alick Glennie in Manchester during the summer of 1952. The Ferranti Mark i computer was not powerful enough to run the algorithm, so Turing executed it manually. Ultimately, the algorithm lost in 29 moves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alick_Glennie
Discussion of computers playing chess reached the media and a rumour spread that there would be a computer chess match between machines in Manchester and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Turing was forced to clarify that such a contest was many years away.
In 2012, the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov played a public game against Turochamp at the Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_Centenary_Conference
Kasparov won in 16 moves but said ... "it was an outstanding accomplishment ... Alan Turing is one of the few people about who you could say that if he had lived longer, the world would be a different place."
Dietrich Prinz, a Ferranti scientist and programmer, took up the challenges of computer chess and tried to improve it by developing algorithms for specific situations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Prinz
The picture is a staged photo of a group pretending to play chess against the Ferranti Mark 1 computer in what is now the Zochonis building at the University of Manchester. Second from the left at the back is Sylvia Robinson (Wagstaff) who was Alan Turing's secretary in the Computing Machine Laboratory. The photo was taken in 1955 after Turing's death and is most likely to have been inspired by Dietrich Prinz's subsequent work on chess algorithms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Mark_1
Turing's Gambit ♕♔♖♗♘♙
One of the first tests of computer intelligence was whether a machine could play chess against a human. In 1948 Turing and the economist David Champernowne wrote the first chess algorithm - Turochamp. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turochamp
Turing played a match against his colleague Alick Glennie in Manchester during the summer of 1952. The Ferranti Mark i computer was not powerful enough to run the algorithm, so Turing executed it manually. Ultimately, the algorithm lost in 29 moves. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alick_Glennie
Discussion of computers playing chess reached the media and a rumour spread that there would be a computer chess match between machines in Manchester and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Turing was forced to clarify that such a contest was many years away.
In 2012, the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov played a public game against Turochamp at the Turing Centenary Conference in Manchester. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing_Centenary_Conference
Kasparov won in 16 moves but said ... "it was an outstanding accomplishment ... Alan Turing is one of the few people about who you could say that if he had lived longer, the world would be a different place."
Dietrich Prinz, a Ferranti scientist and programmer, took up the challenges of computer chess and tried to improve it by developing algorithms for specific situations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Prinz
The picture is a staged photo of a group pretending to play chess against the Ferranti Mark 1 computer in what is now the Zochonis building at the University of Manchester. Second from the left at the back is Sylvia Robinson (Wagstaff) who was Alan Turing's secretary in the Computing Machine Laboratory. The photo was taken in 1955 after Turing's death and is most likely to have been inspired by Dietrich Prinz's subsequent work on chess algorithms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Mark_1