The Turk, chess automaton
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The Turk, chess automaton
McFarland & Co., c2000
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"The present work is a reprint of the illustrated case bound edition of The Turk, Chess Automaton, first published in 2000 by McFarland" --T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-252) and indexes
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内容説明
With all-new research and facts unknown for two centuries, this is a richly detailed and comprehensive account of "The Turk," Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen's amazing but fraudulent Chess Automaton that held the world spellbound for 85 years beginning in 1770. In actuality, the Turk was manipulated by a man housed in a hot box, working by candlelight--but the secret was kept for decades. Besides playing a good game of chess within an hour's time, the manipulator had to keep track of the moves, work the pantograph arm apparatus, nod the head, roll the eyes, cover up sneezes and coughs, and work the sound mechanism. This work contains a detailed discussion of the literature surrounding the Turk along with an analysis of its hidden operation. The complete collection of published games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included.
目次
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The History
1. Schonbrunn Place, Vienna
2. Excitement at the Exhibition
3. Requiescat
4. The Resurrection
5. Many Moons and Many Wives
6. The Musical Showman and the Emperor’s Attack
7. The Men in Hiding
8. Mouret’s Fifty Games in London as the Turk
9. Troubles in the New World
10. Mulhouse
11. Philadelphia, Baltimore, and an Attack of Spies
12. Fakes, Travels, and Exposes
13. Disaster Stirkes
14. The Phoenix
Part Two: The Mystery
15. Windisch, Dutens, Decremps—The Mystery Ferments
16. Thicknesse and Racknitz—Enemy and Admirer
17. Hunneman, Willis, and Bradford—Cracking the Darkness
18. Brewster and Edgar Allan Poe—The Attacks Strengthen
19. Mouret—The Key Unlocks the Door
20. Mitchell—The Hero is Saved and Secrets Revealed
21. Kummer and Others—Voices, Views, and Visions
Part Three: Games, Documents, and Sources
Appendix A : Eighty-Three Non-Turk Games Played by its Directors
Appendix B : The Book of Endgames (CA. 1818)
Appendix C : Dutens’ Letter to Gentleman’s Magazine (1771)
Appendix D : Windisch’s “Inanimate Reason...” (1784)
Appendix E : From Decremps’ “La Magie Blanche Devoillee” (1784/1785)
Appendix F : Thicknesse’s “The Speaking Figure...” (1784)
Appendix G : Racknitz’s “Ueber Den Schachspieler...”(1789)
Appendix H : Willis’ “an Attempt to Analse...” (1821)
Appendix I : The Pittoresque Article (1834)
Appendix J : De Tournay’s “La Vie Et Les Aventures...” (1836)
Appendix K : Poe’s “Maelzel’s Chess-Player” (1836)
Appendix L : Mitchell’s “The Last of a Veteran Chess Player
Appendix M : The Walker Automaton of 1845
Appendix N : The Reconstructed Turk
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index of Games and Players
Index
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