Maelzel's Chess Player
Essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing the chess automaton "The Turk" as fraudulent / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in Europe and the United States and toured widely. The fake automaton was invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1769 and was brought to the U.S. in 1825 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel after von Kempelen's death.