Gaming in 1948 – Alan Turing’s Computer Game ‘Turochamp’ | The Intrigueatorium – Episode 3

In my previous video I discussed the first ever video game the ‘Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device’ from 1947. In that video I noted that even though I considered that game to be a video game, it was not a computer game. It turns out, just one year later, a very famous computer scientist would begin work on one of the world’s first computer games ‘Turochamp’

If you want to play a recreation of Turochamp, then use this link:
https://github.com/mdoege/nimTUROCHAMP

Video Contents:
00:00 Part 1: Introduction
00:45 Part 2: Alan Turing
02:05 Part 3: David Champernowne
04:07 Part 4: The Creation of Turochamp
08:23 Part 5: Playtesting Turochamp
12:31 Part 6: The Ferranti Mark 1 Computer
15:20 Part 7: Turochamp Mark 2
17:32 Part 8: The Future of Turochamp
20:18 Part 9: The Future of Chess Programs
27:40 Part 10: Outro

I would like to give a massive ‘thank you’ to Mark Flynn, Lord Arse and Trista Bytes for providing some voice work for this episode. Make sure you check out their stuff, links below:

Mark Flynn:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/artistmarkflynn
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtistMarkFlynn

Lord Arse:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Lord_Arse
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/lordarse

Trista Bytes
Twitter: https://twitter.com/TristaBytes
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/TristaBytes

Sources:
https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Champernowne/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing/#UnfWor
http://www.alanturing.net/
Proposed Electronic Calculator – Alan M Turing, 1945 (submitted in 1946)
http://www.rutherfordjournal.org/article040101.html#chapter10-6
Turing’s 1948 ‘Paper Chess Machine’ Test as a Prototype of the Turing Test. P Łupkowski, 2019
Computing Machinery and Intelligence – A M Turing, 1950 (Mind, Volume LIX, Issue 236, pages 433-460)
The Turing Guide by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, Robin Wilson. 2017
https://en.chessbase.com/post/reconstructing-turing-s-paper-machine
https://mdoege.github.io/nimTUROCHAMP/

https://www.computerhistory.org/chess/stl-431614f64c5ba/
https://medium.com/ibm-data-ai/the-first-of-its-kind-ai-model-samuels-checkers-playing-program-1b712fa4ab96
“Thinking Machines” Horizons of Science, Vol. 1, No. 4
Computer V. Chess-player, by Alex Bernstein and Michael de V. Roberts, Scientific American June 1958
The Greenblatt chess program, by Richard D. Greenblatt, Donald E. Eastlake, III and Stephen D. Crocker. Massachusetts Institute of Technology –Project Mac – Artificial Intelligence Memo No. 174. April 1969
Philisophical Magazine, Ser. 7, Vol. 41, No. 314 – March 1950.
The Lewiston (Maine) Daily Sun – January 23, 1967.

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