The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine that Fooled the World

The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine that Fooled the World
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This title tells the story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links a cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the relationship between magic, man, mind and machine.
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