Chess legend Garry Kasparov recently took on Turochamp, a chess program written by the late Alan Turing over 60 years ago. Skip to main content. The homepage. The Verge logo.

Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov plays a chess program written more than 60 years ago by the father of modern computing, Alan Turing.

On stage at Manchester Town Hall, the grandmaster took on the Turing "Paper Machine" - the first chess computer program ever written - for the first time ever in public, and Kasparov won in 16 moves.