Saturday, March 28, 2009

Automaton Chess Player - The Turk

Here's an interesting video I came across on YouTube covering the famous Turk machine. If anyone knows the name of what discovery show this was part of please post, I would like to see the rest of the clip.



Legend has it that the "machine" defeated Napolean in a game of chess:

[Event "Schoenbrunn"]
[Site "Schoenbrunn"]
[Date "1809.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Napoleon Bonaparte"]
[Black "The Turk"]
[ECO "C20"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "48"]

1. e4 e5 2. Qf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ne2 Bc5 5. a3 d6 6. O-O Bg4
7. Qd3 Nh5 8. h3 Bxe2 9. Qxe2 Nf4 10. Qe1 Nd4 11. Bb3 Nxh3+
12. Kh2 Qh4 13. g3 Nf3+ 14. Kg2 Nxe1+ 15. Rxe1 Qg4 16. d3 Bxf2
17. Rh1 Qxg3+ 18. Kf1 Bd4 19. Ke2 Qg2+ 20. Kd1 Qxh1+ 21. Kd2
Qg2+ 22. Ke1 Ng1 23. Nc3 Bxc3+ 24. bxc3 Qe2# 0-1

For the wiki page on this machine, click HERE.

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