The mechanical Turk : the true story of the chess-playing machine that fooled the world
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The mechanical Turk : the true story of the chess-playing machine that fooled the world
（Penguin history）（Penguin books）
Penguin, 2003
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The turk
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"First published in the USA as The turk by Walker Publishing Co. and simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry and Whitside 2002, first published in Great Britain under the present title by Allen Lane the Penguin Press 2002"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 254-259) and index
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Description
This title tells the true story of the Turk, the infamous 18th-century automation. The story links an unlikely cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and provides an accessible way of examining the complex relationship between magic, man, mind and machine, from the Enlightenment to the computer age.
Table of Contents
- The queen's gambit accepted
- the Turk's opening move
- a most charming contraption
- ingenious devices, invisible powers
- dreams of speech and reason
- adventures of an imagination
- the emperor and the prince
- the province of intellect
- the wooden warrior in America
- endgame
- the secrets of the Turk
- the Turk versus Deep Blue.
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