Alan Turing

Amongst his other brilliancies ... here's his chess program!

There wasn't a computed powerful enough so he simulated the moves...
some interesting comments as to what extend this was done accurately..

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1356927

and here's a statue 🙂

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AlanTuring-Bletchley.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Turing_Memorial_Closer.jpg

Originally posted by Black Star Uchess
Amongst his other brilliancies ... here's his chess program!

There wasn't a computed powerful enough so he simulated the moves...
some interesting comments as to what extend this was done accurately..

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1356927

and here's a statue 🙂

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AlanTuring-Bletchley.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alan_Turing_Memorial_Closer.jpg

How did he simulate the moves?

Originally posted by sonhouse
How did he simulate the moves?

I imagine he knew the algorithm the computer would use to determine the move to make and computed it manually.