"Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a fraudulent automaton chess player called The Turk, which had become famous in...

who was writing for the Southern Literary Messenger. Poe's essay "Maelzel's Chess Player" was published in April 1836 and is the most famous essay on the...

admirer for 120,000 francs. In 1805 Maelzel purchased Wolfgang von Kempelen's half-forgotten automaton chess player, The Turk, took it to Paris, and sold...

being. The story alludes to Johann Maelzel's chess player, an automaton who was able to challenge humans to chess matches. The device had been invented...

of the hoax chess-playing automaton the Mechanical Turk, titled "Maelzel's Chess Player". Poe also published a short story in which the Turk figures entitled...

on previous analytical works of his own including the essay on "Maelzel's Chess Player" and the comedic "Three Sundays in a Week". As for the twist in...

caterpillars")[citation needed] Maelzel's Chess Player ("a man out of brass and wood, and leather ... with such ingenuity that he would have beaten at chess, all the race...

Turk was observed by Edgar Allan Poe, who later wrote his essay "Maelzel's Chess Player" published in April 1836. He observed: There is a man, Schlumberger...

Samuel Butler's "Darwin among the Machines", and Edgar Allan Poe's "Maelzel's Chess Player" reflected society's growing interest in machines with artificial...

written using themes specifically catered for mass market tastes. "Maelzel's Chess Player" (April 1836 – Southern Literary Messenger) "The Philosophy of Furniture"...

throat-slashing with elements of witchcraft, an automaton modelled on Maelzel's Chess Player, and the story of the Tichborne Claimant. It was dedicated to fellow...

tells how the Spanish engineer travels to London in 1888 to find Maelzel's Chess Player, a mechanical automaton that was believed to have been lost for...

Amontillado" (1846) "Loss of Breath" (1846) "Hop-Frog" (1849) Essays "Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) "The Philosophy of Furniture" (1840) "Morning on the Wissahiccon"...

the picture indicated that it was drawn by Maelzel's automaton which was known at the time as the Maelzel's Juvenile Artist. It is believed that at least...

(1787–1870) was an English chess player and author, best known for the Lewis Countergambit. He may have been the first player ever described as a Grandmaster...

Amontillado" (1846) "Loss of Breath" (1846) "Hop-Frog" (1849) Essays "Maelzel's Chess Player" (1836) "The Philosophy of Furniture" (1840) "Morning on the Wissahiccon"...

Sun newspaper. The story is often compared with Poe's essay on "Maelzel's Chess Player". American poet and author Daniel Hoffman says the story is an "interesting...

Mouret and the chess-life of the time. The first story concerns the period when Mouret was the hidden operator of The Turk. Initially, Maelzel (the owner...

Stukowski. In "An Evil Within," Steve was brought back to life using Johann Maelzel's Metronome, with Claudia and Jane's help. He had no recollection of being...

provide “correspondences with Poe’s published expose (accent) Maelzel’s [automaton] chess-player.” Solomon, 2006 p. 56: “During his career as a director Browning...

She has been involved in co-productions with countries such as The Chess Player (France); Edmilson (Germany), The Dogs of War (Britain), The Aleph (Italy)...

William James Hubard, John H. I. Browere; performances of the "automaton chess player" and the "panharmonicon;" and so on. By 1842 boxer John Sheridan had...