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.

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.

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