Garry Kasparov defeats Alan Turing in chess in 15 moves

They set the machine to play at 2-ply, i.e., it only looks two moves ahead. It's not so surprising even a good algorithm would lose in 15 moves at 2-ply.<p>The article mentions they also played at 5-ply and it lasted 27 and 30 moves against Kasparov, which is probably better than most casual players would do.

It was also fun to watch how much better Kasparov is than me at that speed (~5 seconds per move).

Is there a summary of Turing's algorithm somewhere?

humans can look 5-8 moves ahead with practice. GM's can probably look 15 or so moves ahead as well as study tactics of regular positions such as openings.

Thus proving Turing is human - unless of course that's what it wants you to think !

Will that man please either return to playing serious chess or (better) go away and stop his attention-whoring!?