Yes "Alan Turing, was the first recorded to have tried, creating a programme called Turochamp in 1948." But also "Since 1941 Zuse worked on chess playing algo

Yes "Alan Turing, was the first recorded to have tried, creating a programme called Turochamp in 1948." But also "Since 1941 Zuse worked on chess playing algorithms and formulated program routines in Plankalkül in 1945." https://www.chessprogramming.org/Konrad_Zuse https://www.chessprogramming.org/Konrad_Zuse