My grandpa, Gordon Preston, used to play go and chess with Alan Turing every day while they were at Bletchley Park. They had 8 hours of sleep and 8 hours of work each day, leaving 8 hours with little else to do apart from chess and go. :-)
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Mark Boon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have never heard such a story. That doesn't mean it's not true of course > :) > > Did you know Alan Turing played Go and was most likely the first Go > pogrammer in history? Not that I think he ever tried to write a > playing program, but I believe I read he was the first to contemplate > what it would take for a computer to play Go. > > Mark > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Don Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does anyone remember an anecdote about Bobby Fischer learning to play > > go? I don't remember the details but I'm trying to find a reference to > > this. > > > > I remember in this "story" that Bobby learned the rules, played a game > > and was beaten but that he expected to be a good player immediately > > based on his chess skill. > > > > - Don > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > computer-go mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > > > _______________________________________________ > computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/ > -- Senior Software Engineer IGD group Oxford University http://www-jpc.physics.ox.ac.uk/ http://www-nereus.physics.ox.ac.uk/
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