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In 1769, the court of Empress Maria Theresa witnessed one of that era's most amazing feats of engineering: a machine that could play chess. Artfully constructed by a Hungarian nobleman named Wolfgang von Kempelen, the chess machine played a unique game against each opponent, far surpassing the abilities of all its fellow automata. Throughout its eighty-five year career, audiences across Europe and the Americas flocked to see the mechanical marvel seemingly capable of human intelligence; Napoleon, Charles Babbage, and Benjamin Franklin were among its challengers, and Edgar Allen Poe wrote an essay attempting to explain how it worked.
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Comic books, strips, Automaton chess players, Chess, Hoaxes, History, Canulars, Bandes dessinées, Histoire, Échecs (Jeu)Places
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Clockwork game: the illustrious career of a chess-playing automaton
2013
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0974311022 9780974311029
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"Most of the material contained within originally appeared on www.clockworkgame.com in webcomic format"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-211).
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