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Subject: Re: Alan Turing's program

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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