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The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, lit. ' chess Turk ' ; Hungarian : A Török ), 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.
The name Mechanical Turk was inspired by "The Turk", an 18th-century chess-playing automaton made by Wolfgang von Kempelen that toured Europe, and beat both Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. It was later revealed that this "machine" was not an automaton, but a human chess master hidden in the cabinet beneath the board and controlling ...
Ernest Lazo Sr. took apart a pool table in 1958 and carried it down a downtown Fort Worth hotel back fire escape just ahead of a police raid. Several of the dice and pool playing gamblers helped ...
A Dallas-based developer wants to build apartments in far north Fort Worth. Direct Retail Partners is asking the city to rezone 20.4 acres at 311 E. Bonds Ranch Road to allow for up to 423 ...
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The Mechanical Turk is an 18th-century fake chess-playing machine. Mechanical Turk may also refer to: Amazon Mechanical Turk, an online crowdsourcing marketplace platform; The Turk, a fictional chess computer that became John Henry in Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles