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El Ajedrecista ([el axeðɾeˈθista], English: The Chess Player) is an automaton built in 1912 by Leonardo Torres Quevedo in Madrid, [2] a pioneering autonomous machine capable of playing chess. [3] As opposed to the human-operated Mechanical Turk and Ajeeb , El Ajedrecista had a true integrated automation built to play chess without human ...
Unlike the Mechanical Turk, El Ajedrecista was actually the first autonomous machine capable of playing chess. El Ajedrecista could play an endgame with white, in which white has a king and rook, while black only has a king. The machine was capable of checkmating the black king (played by a human) every time, and able to identify illegal moves. [3]
The ChessMachine was a chess computer sold between 1991 and 1995 by TASC (The Advanced Software Company). It was unique at the time for incorporating both an ARM2 coprocessor for the chess engine on an ISA card which plugged into an IBM PC and a software interface running on the PC to display a chess board and control the engine.
The chess machine. Penguin Group USA. ISBN 978-1-59420-126-4. Stephen Patrick Rice (2004). Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-22781-1. Tom Standage (1 April 2002). The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 19th Century Chess-Playing Machine. Walker. ISBN 978-0 ...
The Fredkin Prize, offering $100,000 to the creator of the first chess machine to defeat the world chess champion, is established. 1981 – Cray Blitz wins the Mississippi State Championship with a perfect 5–0 score and a performance rating of 2258. In round 4 it defeats Joe Sentef (2262) to become the first computer to beat a master in ...
Belle is a chess computer that was developed by Joe Condon (hardware) and Ken Thompson (software) at Bell Labs.In 1983, it was the first machine to achieve master-level play, with a USCF rating of 2250.
Johann Wolfgang Ritter von Kempelen de Pázmánd (Hungarian: Kempelen Farkas; 23 January 1734 – 26 March 1804) was a Hungarian author and inventor, known for his chess-playing "automaton" hoax The Turk and for his speaking machine.
Dezső Magyar: Gábor Bódy, Tamás Szentjóby, György Cserhalmi: Banned after release Fényes szelek: Miklós Jancsó: Hosszú futásodra mindig számíthatunk: Gyula Gazdag: Isten hozta, őrnagy úr: Zoltán Fábri: Zoltán Latinovits, Imre Sinkovits: Based on the novel by István Örkény, entered into the 7th Moscow International Film Festival