Author: Fathom Chess
Date: 03:21:53 04/23/00
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On April 22, 2000 at 11:35:03, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 22, 2000 at 05:09:27, Frederic Friedel wrote: > >>On April 21, 2000 at 10:32:34, guy haworth wrote: >> >>> >>>Turing actually played a game against someone, manually calculating the >>>position-scores and emulating the 'program' himself. [ He lost quite quickly. ] >>> >> >>The game was against Alick Glennie in Manchester 1952. The paper engine with >>Turing as the CPU was searching three ply and lost in 29 moves. >> >>>Yes, it would be fun to have this 'program' functionally recreated: it must be >>>quite trivial with the Crafty infrastructure. >>> >> >>We have reconstructed the engine, which I have on my hard disk as turing.eng for >>Fritz and ChessBase. It was done by Ken Thompson and Mathias Feist. We are still >>in the process of checking it. Apparently the Turing CPU made some errors during >>the game, most remarkably by playing 1.e4. If you look at the rules carefully >>(they are posted somewhere below) > > > >??? I missed something? > >Where can we find the rules? > > > Christophe > In the 'Computer Chess Compendium', D.Levy, Springer-Verlag, 1988; There is a 4-page "chapter" which outlines Turing's chess algorithm.
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