How to read this site
Historical accounts, recorded game scores and our software’s behaviour are different kinds of evidence. Each feature links to its sources; the reconstruction page records software choices that should not be attributed to Turing.
The site uses original editorial text and links to archival documents rather than bundling scans. External reading requires an internet connection. The playable engine, replays, teaching console and page navigation work locally.
Bibliography
- Turing Digital Archive — AMT/B/7, Digital computers applied to games
- Turing’s position-play rules, transcribed by Zuse Institute Berlin
- Kasparov & Friedel — Reconstructing Turing’s “paper machine” (2017)
- ChessBase — reconstruction account and recorded Glennie game
- Turing — Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Mind (1950)
- Shannon — Programming a Computer for Playing Chess (1950), CHM archive
- IBM — Deep Blue: historical account
- Deep Blue–Kasparov, game 6: recorded moves and references
- Mark Weeks — Deep Blue match results and PGN archive
- Stockfish team — Introducing NNUE Evaluation (2020)
- DeepMind — AlphaZero: shedding new light on chess, shogi and Go (2018)
- Greg Knauss — Killer Chess, STart, February 1989
- Interplay — Battle Chess product description
- Jens Meder & friends — Tournament Rules for Three-Dimensional Chess
- Jens Meder — rules preface and provenance
- Computer History Museum — First Tests
- Computer History Museum — Computer Chess Boards
- Computer History Museum — Brute Force vs Knowledge
- Jeff Hlywa — chess.js rules library, BSD-2-Clause
About this project
Turochamp Emulator is an independent educational project centred on an early chess algorithm. It is not affiliated with the Turing estate, King’s College, IBM, Interplay or any television franchise.
The interface uses a wooden-set palette and system chess glyphs. No archival photographs, commercial game artwork or source code from GPL chess engines is included.
Software credits
The chess-rules layer is Jeff Hlywa’s chess.js, pinned to v0.10.3, distributed under the BSD two-clause licence. Its notice is retained, with a local copy in chess-LICENSE.txt. A small documented adapter exposes its existing internal move operations for the search; it does not add an AI.
The site-specific engine, interface and articles are supplied as editable project files. See reconstruction notes for the scope and limits of the historical implementation.
Privacy and advertisements
The site has no account system or site analytics. Console pages load a third-party Adsterra advert and referral image, which make requests to the provider; its scripts may use cookies or similar technologies. Adverts appear only beside consoles, moving below them on small screens. We may earn a commission from the labelled referral link. Calculations run on your device. Games remain in the current page until you save them as PGN; reloading starts a fresh game. Load PGN reads a saved game locally so you can continue it. The PGN file is not uploaded.
Publication details
The supplied canonical links and sitemap assume https://turochampemulator.com as the site address. The site is live; downloadable updates are uploaded separately. The included README explains what to change before going live.