Media comments on chess

[Matt Mackenzie]

I think there is only one chess game Turing played that is extant, it is fair to say that the quality was not excessively high.

[David Sedgwick]

I think there is only one chess game Turing played that is extant, it is fair to say that the quality was not excessively high.

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

[Kevin Thurlow]

Note that the game is actually played by "Turochamp", the computer that Turing devised with David Champernowne. Turing was certainly a fine runner, on the fringes of selection for international marathon honours.

[Stewart Reuben]

According to chessgames, as above, NO computer was involved in the game.
It was an algorithm worked out on paper. That is pretty amazing.
But a human must have resigned when White was about to go queen for rook down.

[Geoff Chandler]

Edinburgh Evening News today (page 33)

A piece in the 'Remember when...' section with a few pictures about Smyslov 1969 simul.



In a larger scan I think this is Alastair White (he got a draw.)

[JustinHorton]

Mark Kermode's list of 25 of the best children's films includes Queen of Katwe.

[Kevin Thurlow]

"According to chessgames, as above, NO computer was involved in the game.
It was an algorithm worked out on paper."

To clarify, I meant in the traditional meaning of "computer", not what we would currently think of. In those days, staff doing calculations would be called "computers". And of course, RAF used "Dalton Computers" for a long time, and indeed they are still used.

[JustinHorton]

I am being treated to this ad on the internet today

[Paul Cooksey]

consider yourself lucky; facebook thinks I might want to buy a sniper dvd...

[Angus French]

Mohammed Amin has been in the news recently. See here (and also here and here). There's no mention of chess but Mohammed is an ECF member and has represented Manchester Chess Federation at ECF meetings.

[Roger Lancaster]

Mohammed Amin has been in the news recently. See here (and also here and here). There's no mention of chess but Mohammed is an ECF member and has represented Manchester Chess Federation at ECF meetings.

LOL, questioning Boris's moral fitness, whatever next?

[Jonathan Rogers]

Is this the same gentleman who was at the BCF in some financial role in the mid 1980s? If so, I seem to remember him standing up to RDK OBE on various matters. (And I suspect there are more than a few similarities between Johnson and Keene).

[Angus French]

Is this the same gentleman who was at the BCF in some financial role in the mid 1980s? If so, I seem to remember him standing up to RDK OBE on various matters. (And I suspect there are more than a few similarities between Johnson and Keene).

Oh yes, that's him. He was BCF Finance Director. He's quoted in a Kingpin piece.

[JustinHorton]

Is this the same gentleman who was at the BCF in some financial role in the mid 1980s? If so, I seem to remember him standing up to RDK OBE on various matters. (And I suspect there are more than a few similarities between Johnson and Keene).

They may share some friends as well as some characteristics.

[NickFaulks]

LOL, questioning Boris's moral fitness, whatever next?

And comparing him to Hitler, in case we didn't get the message.