ChessCoach's video: First recorded Chess Game of a Program against Human Being 1952

Uncommented game - The famous computer pioneer Alan Mathison Turing (1912-54) and chess enthusiast served as bio-CPU by calculating the moves of his "paper machine" using pencil and paper, which took at least about ½ hr per move. The other bio brain attending this session was facing the algorithm with the black pieces. It was Turings' colleague Alick Edwards Glennie (1925–2003), a British computer specialist. Game was played in September 1952 in Manchester, UK. It was however not the first game of a program ever played since prior to this event, Turochamp played a game against Wilhelmina Barbara Maria Dullaert, the wife of Prof. David Gawen Champernowne(1912-2000). She was a chess beginner and lost the game. The chess algorithm was developed starting from 1948. Alan Turing however did not finish to make Turochamp run on an engine although he tried for the world's first commercially available general-purpose electronic computer, the Ferranti Mark 1 (delivered from 1951 on). Some say that Turochamp was more an algorithm rather than a code and Champernowne stated: "Most of our attention went to deciding which moves were to be followed up. My memory about this is infuriatingly weak, Captures had to be followed up at least to the point where no further captures was immediately possible. Check and forcing moves had to be followed further. We were particularly keen on the idea that whereas certain moves would be scorned as pointless and pursued no further others would be followed quite a long way down certain paths. In the actual experiment I suspect we were a bit slapdash about all this and must have made a number of slips since the arithmetic was extremely tedious with pencil and paper. Our general conclusion was that a computer should be fairly easy to programme to play a game of chess against a beginner and stand a fair chance of winning or least reaching a winning position." (https://books.google.de/books?id=RSkxnKlv1D4C&lpg=PP882&ots=VOWmiIm_lD&dq=Turochamp,+chess&pg=PP881&redir_esc=y&hl=de =onepage&q&f=true) The first chess game played by a computer program on an 8x8 board was carried out in 1958. It is also stated that in the 1940s, Konrad Zuse developed a chess program but honestly I have doubts that he succeeded. it is sure however, that Zuse gave it try. Sources: http://en.chessbase.com/post/kasparov-on-alan-turing-and-his-paper-machine- https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Turochamp http://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=106953 http://www.zeit.de/2012/19/Spiele-Schach-19