Turing Became Theoretical Computer Pioneer

In 1952, British mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing played one of the first games of chess using a computer program he had written. Because no available computer was powerful enough to run the program, Turing manually carried out every calculation on paper, effectively acting as the computer himself. The program, later known as Turochamp, demonstrated that a machine could be programmed to play chess years before computers were capable of doing so autonomously.

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