(Download) The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine
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| #1604635 in Books | 2002-04-01 | 2002-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 205.23 x1.05 x5.68l, | File Name: 0802713912 | 224 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Amazing Story of a Great Moment in the History of Chess|By Rick Knowlton|An amazing book. Takes the true history of the famous chess-playing 'automaton' and weaves it into a fascinating page-turning adventure, through episode after episode of the machine's many phases of existence. It would be unexpected to make a moment of chess history into such a riveting narrative --|From Library Journal|The Turk was the name given to a chess-playing automaton created by Wolfgang von Kempelen in order to impress the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria-Hungary. In 1770, von Kempelen demonstrated the Turk and so began a series of performances th
On an autumn day in 1769, a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen attended a conjuring show at the court of Maria Theresa, empress of Austria-Hungary. So unimpressed was Kempelen by the performance that he declared he could do better himself. Maria Theresa held him to his word and gave him six months to prepare a show of his own. Kempelen did not disappoint; he returned to the court the following spring with a mechanical man, fashioned from wood, powered by ...
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