Turochamp
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2|The 1952 game between Turochamp (White) and Alick Glennie (Black). After 29 moves, White is one pawn up but about to lose its Pin (chess)|pinned Queen on the next move. Therefore, White resigns.
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Turochamp is a chess program developed by Alan Turing and David Champernowne in 1948. It was created as part of research by the pair into computer science and machine learning. Turochamp is capable of playing an entire chess game against a human player at a low level of play by calculating all potential moves and all potential player moves in response, as well as some further moves it deems considerable. It then assigns point values to each game state, and selects the move resulting in the highest point value. Turochamp is the earliest known computer game to enter development, but was never…
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Turochamp - Chessprogramming wiki
chessprogramming.org →The learning procedure that Turing proposed in 'Chess' involves the machine trying out variations in its method of play - e.g. varying the numerical values that are assigned to the various pieces. The machine adopts any variation that leads to more satisfactory results. This procedure is an early example of a genetic algorithm . The mentioned game of Turochamp versus Alick Glennie , who wrote the Autocode compiler for the Manchester-Mark I computers. The game took several weeks [[14]]( . Alan Turing , Jack Copeland (editor) ( 2004 ). The Essential Turing, Seminal Writings in Computing, Logic, Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Artificial Life plus The Secrets of Enigma . Oxford University Press , amazon
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thumb|upright=1.2|The 1952 game between Turochamp (White) and Alick Glennie (Black). After 29 moves, White is one pawn up but about to lose its Pin (chess)|pinned Queen on the next move. Therefore, White resigns.
Turochamp is a chess program developed by Alan Turing and David Champernowne in 1948. It was created as part of research by the pair into computer science and machine learning. Turochamp is capable of playing an entire chess game against a human player at a low level of play by calculating all potential moves and all potential player moves in response, as well as some further moves it deems considerable. It then assigns point values to each game state, and selects the move resulting in the highest point value.
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