雙語暢銷書《艾倫圖靈傳》第8章:水銀延時線(134)

DonAld Michie was now studying physiology at Oxford.

唐納德·米奇現在在牛津學習生理學，

He had followed up their Bletchley speculations by teaming up with Shaun Wylie to devise a chess program they called the Machiavelli.

他結合他們在布萊切利想到的方法，和肖恩·懷利一起發明了一臺叫作"馬奇維利機"的下棋機器。

Meanwhile Alan and David Champernowne had worked out one they called the Turochamp.

與此同時，圖靈和晨佩儂一起，也發明了一臺，起名叫"圖羅晨普機"。

It followed the minimax system, and the important idea of pursuing chains of captures until no more could be made.

它遵循最大值最小化的思想，而且能夠走出連環步，

It had a scoring system in which pawn mobility, castling, and getting a rook on to the seventh rank were included as well as captures.

在評估過程中，考慮了棋子的流動性，以應對"王車易位"這樣的着法。

None of this went much beyond what Alan had discussed back in 1941 with Jack Good, or indeed with Champ in 1944.

這些東西，並沒有超越圖靈在1941年與傑克·古德的討論，以及1944年與晨佩儂的討論。

Going for a walk, probably at Christmas that year, they had made a bet on whether a machine could beat Champ himself at chess by 1957.

大概在那年的聖誕節，圖靈跟晨佩儂在散步途中打了一個賭，賭到1957年時，會不會有一臺機器，能在下棋方面戰勝晨佩儂。

The Turochamp certainly did not reach this standard, although it beat his wife, a beginner at chess.

"圖羅晨普機"顯然還無法達到這樣的水平，但它戰勝了晨佩儂的夫人，她是個初學者。

It was not taken at all seriously, or written out in detail.

這些事情，都沒有被認真對待，或者是詳細地記錄下來，

But it would have been a system of this kind which gave Alan 'a sense of pitting one's wits against something', as he wrote in Intelligent Machinery.

但它們卻使圖靈產生了許多想法，這些想法都體現在《機器智能》當中。

Champ also took on the system for poker that Alan had more carefully worked out, and had the pleasure of beating it by sheer good luck.

晨還設計了一個撲克機，跟它玩得不亦樂乎。