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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...