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    An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen: To Which is Added, a Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves over the Chess Board
    An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen: To Which is Added, a Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves over the Chess Board
    An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen: To Which is Added, a Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves over the Chess Board
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    An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen: To Which is Added, a Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves over the Chess Board

    By Robert Willis

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    "An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen" by Robert Willis is part technical manual, part pop-culture, and, seemingly, part science fiction. The automaton chess player wowed audiences from the moment it first debuted. While many were happy to simply sit back and enjoy watching the seeming magic of one of the first "robots", others aimed to delve deeper. Robert Willis was one such man. In fact, men like Willis are to thank for discovering that, as convincing as it was, the Automaton Chess Player wasn't all that it seemed to be…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateNov 5, 2021
    ISBN4066338072948
    An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen: To Which is Added, a Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves over the Chess Board

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      An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen - Robert Willis

      Robert Willis

      An Attempt to Analyse the Automaton Chess Player of Mr. De Kempelen

      To Which is Added, a Copious Collection of the Knight's Moves over the Chess Board

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4066338072948

      Table of Contents

      AN ATTEMPT TO ANALYSE, &c.

      EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES.

      APPENDIX.

      LIST OF THE KNIGHT’S MOVES

      Howlett

      and

      Brimmer

      ,

      Printers, 10, Frith Street, Soho.

      Fig. 2.

      Drawn on Stone by the Author. Printed by C. Hullmandel.

      AN ATTEMPT TO ANALYSE

      THE

      AUTOMATON CHESS PLAYER,

      OF

      MR. DE KEMPELEN.

      WITH AN EASY METHOD OF IMITATING THE MOVEMENTS

      OF THAT CELEBRATED FIGURE.

      ILLUSTRATED BY ORIGINAL DRAWINGS.

      TO WHICH IS ADDED, A COPIOUS COLLECTION OF

      THE KNIGHT’S MOVES

      OVER THE CHESS BOARD.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED FOR J. BOOTH,

      DUKE STREET, PORTLAND PLACE.

      1821.

      Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses.

      Shakspeare.

      I had not thought to have unlockt my lips In this unhallowed air, but that this juggler Would think to charm my judgment, as mine eyes.

      Milton.

      AN ATTEMPT TO ANALYSE, &c.

      Table of Contents

      The Automaton Chess Player was first introduced into England by Mr. de Kempelen, its inventer, about the year 1783. It was brought again into this country two years ago, and exhibited

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