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Times of India

Before AI, there was the Mechanical Turk: The chess machine that wasn’t

Before AI, there was the Mechanical Turk: The chess machine that wasn’tWorldPing

The Mechanical Turk first appeared in 1770 as a chess-playing machine that astonished audiences across Europe and the Americas. It played Benjamin Franklin and Napoleon Bonaparte, but the secret was a skilled chess player hidden inside its cabinet.

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