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It was Maelzel who later brought the Turk to the United States in 1826. The French emperor reportedly attempted a few illegal moves during the game-which he lost-but each time, his mechanical adversary would simply shake its head and place the piece back where it had been. Maelzel’s biggest coup came in Vienna in 1809, when he arranged a match between the Turk and Napoleon Bonaparte. He also started promoting its performances with advertisements and newspaper articles. Maelzel added a bit of flair to his exhibitions by installing a mechanical voice box that allowed the automaton to say “check!” whenever it endangered an opponent’s king.
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(K.J.Kempelen died in 1804, but the Turk was later purchased by a German inventor and showman named Johann Maelzel, who toured with it for the rest of his life. Schade, dass beide Autoren ihre eigenen Wege gegangen sind, man hätte die Vorzüge beider Bücher gerne in einem Werk vereint gesehen. Einige sachliche Fehler sind ebenfalls enthalten. Der durch ständige Wiederholungen geprägte Stil des Autors lässt keine rechte Lesefreude aufkommen. Dieses Buch hat Vorteile in der opulenten Ausstattung und Bebilderung, ist schachorientierter und strebt nach größter Vollständigkeit in den historischen Quellen und im Partienmaterial. Ein kurzer Vergleich mag dennoch von Nutzen sein.
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13-17, von Chrilly Donninger ausführlich besprochen worden. Großformat 21x28 cm,fester Einband eng/., algebr. Levitt zum gleichen Thema: The Turk, Chess Automaton (258 Seiten über 100 Illustrationen, Diagr. Kurz erwähnt sei noch das 2000 bei McFarland erschienene Buch von Gerald M. Vergleichende Rezension zu "Der Türke" von Tom Standage, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt/New York 2002 MlTCHELL'S "THE LAST OF A VETERAN CHESS PLAYER" (1857)Ģ41 Appendix M. POE'S "MAELZEL'S CHESS-PLAYER" (1836)Ģ36 Appendix L. DE TOURNAY'S "LA VlE ET LES AVENTURES." (1836)Ģ26 Appendix K. THE PlTTORESQUE ARTICLE (1834)Ģ23 Appendix J. WlLLIS' "AN ATTEMPT TO ANALYSE." (1821)Ģ21 Appendix I. RACKNITZ'S "UEBER DEN SCHACHSPIELER." (1789)Ģ16 Appendix H. THICKNESSE´S "THE SPEAKING FIGURE." (1784)Ģ06 Appendix G. FROM DECREMPS' "LA MAGIE BLANCHE DÉVOILLÉE" (1784/1785)Ģ02 Appendix F. WlNDISCH'S "INANIMATE REASON." (1784)Ģ00 Appendix E. DUTENS´ LETTER TO GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE (1771)ġ93 Appendix D. EIGHTY-THREE NON-TURK GAMES PLAYED BY ITS DIRECTORSĠ82 Appendix B. Games, Documents, and Sourcesġ59 Appendix A. KUMMER AND OTHERS - VOICES, VIEWS, AND VISIONS MlTCHELL - THE HERO IS SAVED AND SECRETS REVEALEDġ50 Chapter 21. MOURET - THE KEY UNLOCKS THE DOORġ44 Chapter 20. BREWSTER AND EDGAR ALLAN POE - THE ATTACKS STRENGTHENġ38 Chapter 19. HUNNEMAN, WlLLIS, AND BRADFORD - CRACKING THE DARKNESSġ30 Chapter 18. THICKNESSE AND RACKNITZ - ENEMY AND ADMIRERġ19 Chapter 17. WlNDISCH, DUTENS, DECREMPS - THE MYSTERY FERMENTSġ07 Chapter 16. FAKES, TRAVELS, AND EXPOSESġ01 Chapter 15. PHILADELPHIA, BALTIMORE, AND AN ATTACK OF SPIESĠ81 Chapter 12. MOURET'S FIFTY GAMES IN LONDON AS THE TURKĠ74 Chapter 11. THE MUSICAL SHOWMAN AND THE EMPEROR'S ATTACKĠ49 Chapter 8. EXCITEMENT AT THE EXHIBITIONĠ38 Chapter 6. A retired doctor of podiatric medicine, he lives in Naples, Florida.Ġ14 Chapter 2. He has authored numerous articles for Chess Life and floridaCHESS, written a chess column, and made live radio appearances as a chess expert. Levitt has been playing postal and over-the-board chess for many years. A collection of published games played by the Turk, many, again, unknown for 200 years, is also included, along with numerous other games known to have been played elsewhere by the Turk's hidden directors. This work contains a detailed discussion of the sizeable body of literature surrounding the Turk along with an extensive analysis of its hidden Operation. In addition to playing a good game of chess within an hour's time, the hidden director had to keep track of the position, move the pieces with the pantograph arm apparatus, nod the head, roll the eyes, cover up sneezes and coughs, and work the mechanism that spoke the word "Échec!" In actuality, the Turk was manipulated by a man housed in a hot box, working by candlelight - but the secret was kept for decades. With all-new research revealing facts unrecalled for two centuries, this is a richly detailed and exhaustive account of the elaborate and astonishing 18th Century chess-playing machine in human form known as "the Turk," Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen's amazing Automaton that held the world spellbound for 85 years beginning in 1770.