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A reconstruction of The Mechanical Turk, a famous chess-playing machine built in 1770. Invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen, a Hungarian author and engineer, in Vienna....
In 1836, Edgar Allan Poe published an essay examining the Mechanical Turk, a famous chess-playing machine that had amazed audiences across Europe and America. The device appeared to play chess on its own, but Poe argued that a completely mechanical player should behave with perfect consistency.
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