Links about Turk, The:

• Wired 10.03: Monster in a Box

"the phenomena of the chess player are inconsistent with the effects of mere ... games against the turk, he sketched out his first plans for such a machine. ...

• Computer vs. humans in chess / Machine stares down man in museum show

humans have been trying to build a chess-playing machine since the 1770s, ... by then, it seemed that deep blue had a tremendous edge: it could examine and ...

• Review of "Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine", reviewed by ...

the chess-playing machine he faced was not subject to such character faults. ... ibm, which scripted much of the event, seemed not to honor some of their ...

• the chutry experiment: Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine

... 18th-century chess player automaton, "the turk," that mysteriously beat all ... the film also seemed to struggle with how to make filming chess visually ...

• Chess: Checkmate

of defeating the world chess champion seemed within reach. ... playing machine. it calculated 200 million positions per second, at times up to thirty ...

• Table of Contents

fascination with the chess machine, to bring the turk back as a. money-making venture. ... regularly operated the turk without playing a full game of chess; ...

• ChessBase.com - Chess News - Game over: Kasparov and the Machine

for instance, the film uses the turk as a visual reference point. ... i recommend this film for chess enthusiasts and non-players alike. ...

• babbage's dancer - the hypermedia research centre - University of ...

babbage's attention turned to the prospects of a games machine. ... this chess-player was built at the end of the 1760s by an aristocratic slovak engineer, ...

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posted at 2005-08-29