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The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. ' chess Turk ' ; Hungarian : A Török ), or simply The Turk , was a fraudulent chess -playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent.
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing website with which businesses can hire remotely located "crowdworkers" to perform discrete on-demand tasks that computers are currently unable to do as economically.
The earliest form of a chess engine appears in the 18th century with a machine named the Mechanical Turk.Created by Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Mechanical Turk, a life sized human model, debuted in 1770 as the world's first autonomous chess robot.
The Mechanical Turk is an 18th-century fake chess-playing machine. Mechanical Turk may also refer to: Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing marketplace platform; The Turk, a fictional chess computer that became John Henry in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The automated chess player "Mechanical Turk", as depicted in an engraving"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.
Mechanical Turk or The Turk, a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Turk .
The Turk Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd ( Hungarian : Kempelen Farkas ; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author, engineer, and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine .
Photo of "Ajeeb the Wonderful", 1886 An advertisement for an exhibition of Ajeeb, including an illustration of its appearance. Ajeeb was an imitation of the Turk.. Ajeeb was a chess-playing "automaton", created by Charles Hooper (a cabinet maker), [1] first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868.