- The first machine to awe humanity with its chess mastery was the eighteenth-century life-size automaton known as the Turk. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/03/28/the-grandmaster-hoax/ 3 comments history
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- Object of Intrigue: The Turk, a Mechanical Chess Player that Unsettled the World - Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/object-of-intrigue-the-turk 3 comments
- Debunking the Mechanical Turk Helped Set Edgar Allan Poe on the Path to Mystery Writing | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/debunking-mechanical-turk-helped-set-edgar-allan-poe-path-mystery-writing-180964059/ 0 comments
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