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Categories: Hoaxes in science, 18th-century hoaxes, History of chess, Hungarian inventions, Chess automatons
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Mechanical Turk  The Turk  Automaton Chess Player  Mech Turk  MechanicalTurk
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The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player, or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. Wikipedia
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chess
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The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player, or simply The Turk, was a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent. Wikipedia
18th-century fake chess-playing machine. Wikipedia Disambiguation
Chess automaton hoax Wikidata
IS A
automaton
hoax
chess computer
appliance
HAS PART
cabinet
chessboard
chess set
clockwork
mannequin
+1 relations
CONTAINS
chess player
CREATOR
Wolfgang von Kempelen
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Otto's encyclopedia
OPERATOR
Aaron Alexandre
Johann Baptist Allgaier
Jacques François Mouret
Hyacinthe Henri Boncourt
William Lewis
OWNED BY
John Kearsley Mitchell
SPORT
chess
USE
chess tournament
USES
chess player
Wikipedia
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Mechanical Turk
Wikidata
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The Turk
Wikipedia Redirections
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Automaton Chess Player, Mech Turk, Mechanical turk, MechanicalTurk, the Mechanical Turk, the Turk (chess)
Wikidata Alias
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Automaton Chess Player, Mechanical Turk

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