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Subject: Re: How did Alan Turing's "Turochamp" program work?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 10:59:27 04/21/00

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On April 21, 2000 at 13:40:36, Sean Empey wrote:

>On April 21, 2000 at 00:32:00, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On April 20, 2000 at 20:53:28, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On April 20, 2000 at 19:51:02, Pete Galati wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've seen Alen Turning's Chess program that only existed on paper mentioned a
>>>>few times, but I don't think I've seen any mention of how it actually worked.
>>>>
>>>>Has his program ever been published?
>>>>
>>>>Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Pete
>>>
>>>Sorry, his name is spelled Alan Turing, I spelled both his names wrong!
>>>
>>>Pete
>>
>>Best I can do is dig up it's name at the moment, "Turochamp".  He should have
>>been in marketing, good name, but it sounds more like a bicycle.
>>
>>Pete
>
>He was very much into riding bicycle's. Another Book you might want to look at,
>though long is Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson. It's a novel that switches
>between WWII and present. Dr. Alan Turing is a main focus in a lot of it. It
>goes over a lot of his work and explains it in some detail.

There seems to be an awfull lot written about Turing, I've only been looking
into this this week.  He seems to be very pivitol to the outcome of the digital
age, and yet he's somehow a mostly unknown footnote.

He was rather important to computers, and my guess at this point is that this
CCC forum would not have existed (as it is) without his work creating the first
Chess program.  It's embaressing how little I know about this.

Pete



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