At the dawn of that decade, an inventor by the name of Wolfgang ... designed to play chess against any opponent game enough to challenge him. At the Viennese court in 1770, Von Kempelen began ...

In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat named Wolfgang von Kempelen ... of teaching chess computers to select strategies and even to learn from experience—in other words, to play more like ...

Wolfgang von Kempelen - well versed in ... top of the cabinet to illuminate the board. Kempelen announced that the automaton was ready to play chess against anyone prepared to challenge it ...

In Vienna, von Kempelen introduced hi “chess machine”, which brought him global fame. The machine, consisting of a life-sized Turk figure sitting at a desk with a chessboard, was able to play chess ...

THE idea that chess-playing skill is a proxy for machine intelligence is not new. It goes back as far as 1770, when Wolfgang von Kempelen ... could play chess, moving the pieces with a mechanical ...

In the spring of 1770 a Hungarian nobleman, Wolfgang von Kempelen, unveiled to the imperial ... The Turk had an expert chess player hidden in the cabinet. He relied on magnets in the chess pieces ...

Chess,’ Pascal said, “is the gymnasium of the mind.” But for Enlightenment age tinkerer and Hungarian man of science Wolfgang ... play anyone who dared. A count volunteered. Von Kempelen ...

For more than 80 years, Wolfgang von Kempelen's Mechanical Turk amazed people on both continents by appearing to play chess. The Turk was a trick - somewhere inside its cabinet was a human ...

Back in 1769, a chess playing automation by the name of The Turk was introduced by Hungarian author and inventor, Wolfgang von Kempelen ... that Mälzel’s Chess Player (the new name that ...