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- The_Turk abstract "The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, "chess Turk"' Hungarian: A Török), was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854, it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax. Constructed and unveiled in 1770 by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804) to impress the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, the mechanism appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent, as well as perform the knight's tour, a puzzle that requires the player to move a knight to occupy every square of a chessboard exactly once.The Turk was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess master hiding inside to operate the machine. With a skilled operator, the Turk won most of the games played during its demonstrations around Europe and the Americas for nearly 84 years, playing and defeating many challengers including statesmen such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Benjamin Franklin. The operator(s) within the mechanism during Kempelen's original tour remains a mystery. When the device was later purchased in 1804 and exhibited by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, the chess masters who secretly operated it included Johann Allgaier, Boncourt, Aaron Alexandre, William Lewis, Jacques Mouret, and William Schlumberger.".
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- The_Turk hasPhotoCollection The_Turk.
- The_Turk subject Category:18th-century_hoaxes.
- The_Turk subject Category:18th-century_robots.
- The_Turk subject Category:18th_century_in_chess.
- The_Turk subject Category:Automata_(mechanical).
- The_Turk subject Category:Chess_automatons.
- The_Turk subject Category:Historical_robots.
- The_Turk subject Category:History_of_chess.
- The_Turk subject Category:Hoaxes_in_science.
- The_Turk subject Category:Hungarian_inventions.
- The_Turk type 18th-centuryRobots.
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- The_Turk type HistoricalRobots.
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- The_Turk comment "The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, "chess Turk"' Hungarian: A Török), was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854, it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax.".
- The_Turk label "El Turco".
- The_Turk label "Il Turco".
- The_Turk label "Mechaniczny Turek".
- The_Turk label "O Turco".
- The_Turk label "Schachtürke".
- The_Turk label "The Turk".
- The_Turk label "Turc mécanique".
- The_Turk label "Turk (schaakmachine)".
- The_Turk label "Шахматный автомат".
- The_Turk label "ذي تورك".
- The_Turk label "トルコ人 (チェス)".
- The_Turk label "土耳其行棋傀儡".
- The_Turk sameAs Turek_(stroj).
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- The_Turk sameAs Turc_mécanique.
- The_Turk sameAs Turk_(mesin).
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- The_Turk sameAs トルコ人_(チェス).
- The_Turk sameAs Turk_(schaakmachine).
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- The_Turk sameAs Q275924.
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- The_Turk sameAs The_Turk.
- The_Turk wasDerivedFrom The_Turk?oldid=603959886.
- The_Turk depiction Turk-engraving5.jpg.
- The_Turk isPrimaryTopicOf The_Turk.