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The Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding inside to operate the machine. With a skilled operator, the Turk won most of the games played during its demonstrations around Europe and the Americas for nearly 84 years, playing and defeating many challengers including statesmen such as Napoleon Bonaparte and ...
"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 Europe and the United States and toured widely. The fake automaton was invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1769 and was brought to the U.S. in 1825 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel after von Kempelen ...
The Mechanical Turk could play chess and beat opponents, even going as far as solving the iconic knight's tour chess puzzle. The Mechanical Turk remained in operation from 1770 to 1854, eventually being destroyed in a fire. The hoax was uncovered years after the machine’s demise, with a human being the true source of the Mechanical Turk's ...
The Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding inside to operate the machine. With a skilled operator, the Turk won most of the games played during its demonstrations around Europe and the Americas for nearly 84 years, playing and defeating many challengers including statesmen such as Napoleon Bonaparte and ...
The machine appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, but was in fact merely an elaborate simulation of mechanical automation: a human chess master concealed inside the cabinet puppeteered the Turk from below by means of a series of levers.
Turk Barrett, from Marvel comics; Terry Lynch, from the 1985 film Turk 182; The Turk, a chess computer from a self-titled episode of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Virgil "The Turk" Sollozzo, an character from the 1972 film The Godfather; Turk Malloy, a member of Danny Ocean's heist crew from the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven
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1769 – Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen builds the Mechanical Turk, a fake chess-playing humanoid "machine" in fact operated secretly by a human. 1783 – Philidor plays as many as three games simultaneously without seeing the board.