Alick Glennie

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Alick E. Glennie (1925-2003) was a British computer scientist, most famous for having developed Autocode, which many people regard as the first ever computer compiler^{[citation needed]}. Glennie worked with Alan Turing on several projects, including the Manchester Mark I/II^{[citation needed]}. He also played the first ever game of computer chess, although it was played against a program not capable of being run on the computers of the day: the chess program was devised by Alan Turing, and operated with pen and paper by Turing^{[citation needed]}. The match took several weeks to complete. Alick came out the victor.

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• A move by move version of Turing and Glennie's chess game