@greenpawn34 said
Still love doing it. (keeps me sane)
I'll go for once a month. I may sneak in an Aitken game.
(I am seeing them in my sleep - there are actually some very good unknown games.)
Aitken was one of the Bletchley code breakers, some games
are marked: Match v Hut 8 (not seen a game v A. Turing...yet.)
Instructive moment No. 134
Aitken - S. Date, 28th Oct 19 ...[text shortened]... 35. Rxf8 Kxf8 36. a5 {And the King is not in the square. The a-pawn runs home. 1-0} [/pgn]
Hi GP,
in the final position if we move Black's King to e8 so it can catch the runner then I think the ending's won anyway because the King can't stop the two passed pawns and protect the King side ones.
I read somewhere, possibly on Edward Winter's site, about the first chess engine, which was implemented on a Turing machine. The Turing machine was implemented by hand by Turing himself - it lost.
Edit: I did a quick search on chessgames.com and it has the game (but none featuring Turing as an actual player). The Turing machine has the white pieces.
[Event "Friendly game"]
[Site "Manchester ENG "]
[Date "1952.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Alan Turing"]
[Black "Alick Glennie"]
[ECO "C26"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "58"]
1.e4 {This game is of considerable historical interest since
it is arguably the first computer chess game. The British
mathematician and computer pioneer Alan Turing devised a chess
playing program which, for lack of a computer to program, was
operated with paper and pencil. This was the result when the
program played Alick Glennie, a colleague of Turing's.} e5
2.Nc3 Nf6 3.d4 Bb4 4.Nf3 d6 5.Bd2 Nc6 6.d5 Nd4 7.h4 Bg4 8.a4
Nxf3+ 9.gxf3 Bh5 10.Bb5+ c6 11.dxc6 O-O 12.cxb7 Rb8 13.Ba6 Qa5
14.Qe2 Nd7 15.Rg1 Nc5 16.Rg5 Bg6 17.Bb5 Nxb7 18.O-O-O Nc5
19.Bc6 Rfc8 20.Bd5 Bxc3 21.Bxc3 Qxa4 22.Kd2 Ne6 23.Rg4 Nd4
24.Qd3 Nb5 25.Bb3 Qa6 26.Bc4 Bh5 27.Rg3 Qa4 28.Bxb5 Qxb5
29.Qxd6 Rd8 0-1