Gazette (Baltimore)

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The Gazette was a triweekly newspaper published in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1827. On June 1, 1827, an article in the Gazette revealed that the so-called "Mechanical Turk", allegedly an automaton which could play chess, was a hoax and only worked because of a human chess master operating it from the inside.^[1]^[2]

References

↑ Allen, George (1859). "The history of the automaton chess-player in America. A letter addressed to William Lewis Esq., London". The Book of the First American Chess Congress: Containing the Proceedings of that Celebrated Assemblage, held in New York, in the Year 1857. By Fiske, Daniel Willard. New York: Rudd & Carleton. pp. 451–452 – via Internet Archive.
↑ Cook, James W. (Winter 1995). "From the Age of Reason to the Age of Barnum: The Great Automaton Chess-Player and the Emergence of Victorian Cultural Illusionism". Winterthur Portfolio. 30 (4). University of Chicago Press: 253. JSTOR 4618515.

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[1] Allen, George (1859). "The history of the automaton chess-player in America. A letter addressed to William Lewis Esq., London". The Book of the First American Chess Congress: Containing the Proceedings of that Celebrated Assemblage, held in New York, in the Year 1857. By Fiske, Daniel Willard. New York: Rudd & Carleton. pp. 451–452 – via Internet Archive.

[2] Cook, James W. (Winter 1995). "From the Age of Reason to the Age of Barnum: The Great Automaton Chess-Player and the Emergence of Victorian Cultural Illusionism". Winterthur Portfolio. 30 (4). University of Chicago Press: 253. JSTOR 4618515.

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