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The Turk : Automation Chess PLayer
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The Turk or Automaton Chess Player was a chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, exhibited from 1770 for over 84 years, by various owners, as an automaton but later explained in January 1857 as an elaborate hoax. Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804) to impress the Empress Maria Theresa, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight\'s tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard once and only once.
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-21 05:43:35
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The Turk from Wikipedia
The Turk or Automaton Chess Player was a chess-playing machine of the late 18th century, exhibited from 1770 for over 84 years, by various owners, as an automaton but later explained in January 1857 as an elaborate hoax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turk
created by syam1224 on 2008-04-21 05:48:03
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