Turochamp EmulatorChess · History · Artificial intelligence
An idea from 1948.
A different way to play.

Development diary

What’s new?

Changes to the reconstruction and the site around it. For unfinished features and future plans, see Site statusUpdates.

Version 0.7 · 16 October 2026

  • Load a saved game: import one PGN from a file or pasted text, then continue as White or Black. The moves are checked before the active game is replaced.
  • Clearer scores: the thinking panel shows the change in positional value as well as its total.
  • Closer to the hand calculation: square roots use one-decimal rounding. An impossible capture of the opponent’s king is excluded when calculating hypothetical mobility.
  • Worked history: compare e3 and e4 component by component, and see five opening-score comparisons in the fidelity notes.
  • Mobile play: the players and move record remain visible beneath the board. A short guide explains castling, en passant, promotion and saved games.
  • Recovery and records: saved PGNs include the result of completed games, and a failed calculation leaves the controls available to retry or undo.

Changing the rounding convention can change the engine’s choices. The search remains bounded and the reconstruction does not claim to reproduce every move of Turing’s manual game.

Version 0.6 · 25 September 2026

Added all six Deep Blue–Kasparov 1997 replays, a game selector, original short commentary and a complete PGN download. Improved keyboard navigation, promotion labels and focus handling.

Versions 0.5–0.5.1 · 25 September 2026

Integrated console-only advertising and the referral banner. The final advert size is 320 × 50; the referral banner is 160 × 90. Both move below the console on small screens.

Versions 0.3–0.4 · 24 September 2026

Added prominent checkmate and draw dialogues, a status page and the ELIZA link. Corrected the searched material ratio and the handling of positions in which every legal move needs further consideration.

The original draft · September 2026

Established the wooden chess-set palette, playable reconstruction, historical articles, Glennie replay, teaching example and tri-dimensional layout preview.