Did an 18th-century engineer manage to build a chess-playing automaton?

robertmckenna September 20, 2017, 12:58pm 13

Wow! Thanks for that. The mechanical Turk was a staple of kids science books when I was a kid but I’ve never heard of el ajedrecista before.

Topic		Replies	Views
The future of trollbots boing	12	2663	April 23, 2016
"Self-driving" van actually driven by human disguised as car seat boing	23	2459	August 13, 2017
A mechanical, wooden Turing machine boing	11	1183	March 13, 2018
Programmable, 19th century, 6,000-piece automaton: the Writer boing	14	3290	November 11, 2013
Death to the "chatbot passed a Turing Test" story boing	31	3618	June 16, 2014