The film is based in parts on the life of the English mathematician, codebreaker, and father of computer science. Like a number of British chessplayers Turing, who because of his great mathematical talent was recruited by the British Secret Service, played a crucial role in cracking the code of the "Enigma", the machine the German army used during World War II to code their messages. Turing also formulated the theoretical basis for computer science ("On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem", 1936), and wrote the very first chess program. He put the sequence of commands for the imaginary machine - computers did not yet exist - on paper and that's why this program was called "Paper Engine".
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Among the English chessplayers in Bletchley Park were Hugh Alexander, Stuart Milner-Barry and Harry Golombek. All of them were part of the English National team at that time.
Milner-Barry later occupied a high post in English ministeries, Golombek worked as chess publisher and arbiter, while Alexander became director of the MI5 encryption department. This stopped him from playing any tournaments in the Eastern bloc and thus presumably robbed him of a chance to get the GM title.
See the article.
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Among the English chessplayers in Bletchley Park were Hugh Alexander, Stuart Milner-Barry and Harry Golombek. All of them were part of the English National team at that time.
Milner-Barry later occupied a high post in English ministeries, Golombek worked as chess publisher and arbiter, while Alexander became director of the MI5 encryption department. This stopped him from playing any tournaments in the Eastern bloc and thus presumably robbed him of a chance to get the GM title.
See the article.
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