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Schemes of Turing/  /January 06, 2006
In the spring of 1941 Alan [Turing] developed a new friendship. It was with Joan Clarke. . . .

If he came up with some scheme or entertainment then they would both join in with gusto. He had learnt how to knit, and had progressed as far as making a pair of gloves, expect for sewing up the ends. Joan was able to explain how to finish them off.

The joy, or the difficulty, was that the enjoyeed so easy a friendship. They were both keen on chess, and were quite well matched, even though Joan was a novice. . . . Alan used to call their efforts 'sleepy chess', taking place as they did after the nine hour night shift. Joan had only a cardboard pocket set, and proper chess pieces were unobtainable in wartime conditions, so they improvised their own solution. Alan got some clay from one of the local pits, and they modelled the figures together.


—Alan Turing: The Enigma, Andrew Hodges

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