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also known as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. 'chess Turk'; Hungarian: A Török), or simply The Turk, was a chess-playing machine,

"Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in

Chess is a board game for two players. It is an abstract strategy game that involves no hidden information and no elements of chance. It is played on

manufacturing a metronome and several music-playing automatons and displaying a fraudulent chess machine. He worked with Beethoven to compose a piece

An automaton (/ɔːˈtɒmətən/ ; pl.: automata or automatons) is a relatively self-operating machine, or control mechanism designed to automatically follow

Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine. Walker and Company, New York City, 2002. ISBN 0-8027-1391-2 Gerald M. Levitt, The Turk, Chess Automaton. McFarland and

speculates on the nature of life and intelligence. It describes a chess-playing automaton that murders its creator. First published in The San Francisco

information on Schlumberger's life is George Allen's "The History of the Automaton Chess-Player in America", published within a book by Willard Fiske. Unless otherwise

Mephisto was the name given to a chess-playing "pseudo-automaton" built in 1876. Unlike The Turk and Ajeeb it had no hidden operator inside, instead being

Computer chess includes both hardware (dedicated computers) and software capable of playing chess. Computer chess provides opportunities for players to practice