One person who appreciated this approach was Donald Michie, to whom as a classicist it all came as fresh and new.
有一个人很欣赏这样的方式，他叫唐纳德·米奇，对于他这个古典主义者来说，这种方式很新鲜。
He became very friendly with Alan, and in 1943 they began to meet every Friday evening in a pub at Stony Stratford, just north of Bletchley itself, to play chess and talk—or more often, for Donald to listen.
他与艾伦非常友好，从1943年开始，他们每周五晚上都在布莱切利北边的酒吧见面，在那里玩国际象棋或者聊天，通常是唐纳德听艾伦说。
The Prof's chess had always been something of a joke at Bletchley, being all the more exposed to invidious comparison when the chess masters arrived.
布莱切利的平均下棋水平并不怎么样，当国际象棋大师到来时，经常出现悬殊的实力对比。
Harry Golombek had been able to give him queen odds, and still win; or when Alan resigned he was able to turn the board round and win from the position given up as hopeless.
哈利·哥洛博可以对艾伦的皇后放水，然后照样赢他。他还可以在艾伦认输时，与他互换角色，然后在艾伦觉得绝无可能的情况下反败为胜。
He complained that Alan had no idea how to make the pieces work together, and it might well be that as in his social behaviour, he was too conscious of what he was trying to do, to play with fluency.
他责备艾伦不懂得棋子之间的配合，这和艾伦的社交行为有些类似，他总是把精神全部集中在一件事上。
As Jack Good saw it, he was too intelligent to accept as obvious the moves that others might make without thinking.
而在杰克·克德看来，艾伦其实是过于聪明，其他人不需思考就能走的步子，
He always had to work it out from the beginning.
他都非要从头推算一遍不可。
There had been an amusing moment when Alan had come off a night shift (this would have been in late 1941) and then played a game with Harry Golombek in the early morning.
艾伦上夜班时（1941年末），总会享受一段有趣的时光，那就是在清晨与哈利·哥洛博下棋。
Travis had looked in and was embarrassed to find, as he thought, his senior cryptanalyst playing while on duty.
有一次，特拉维斯过来走访，于是他尴尬地看到，他的高级密码分析员正在值班的时候玩棋。
'Er ... er ... want to see you about something, Turing,' he said awkwardly, like the housemaster catching a sixth-former with a cigarette in the toilet.
"嗯……咳……我看看你玩什么呢，图灵。"他不太高兴地说，就像舍监抓到学生在厕所吸烟一样。
'Hope you can beat him,' he added to Golombek as they left the room, assuming quite wrongly that the master cryptanalyst was the champion player.
"祝你能赢他。"他离开时，对哥洛博说了这么一句。他错误地以为，密码分析大师同样也是象棋高手。
But young Donald Michie was a player of Alan's standard.
不过，年轻的唐纳德·米奇倒是和艾伦水平差不多。