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Turk, The: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine - Couverture rigide
Synopsis
In 1769, a Hungarian nobleman, Wolfgang von Kempelen, was summoned to witness a show at the court of Maria Theresa. So unimpressed was Kempelen by the performance that he declared he could do better himself and built The Turk: a machine capable of playing chess. This book tells the story of the machine's career.
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