Don’t confuse this with the infamous Mechanical Turk, which appeared to be a chess computer but was really a guy hiding inside a fake chess computer. The Spanish engineer’s machine really did ...

See crowdsourcing. The name comes from Wolfgang von Kempelen's mechanical "Turk" in the mid-1700s, which was an expert chess player dressed up as a wooden mannequin. Defeating challengers ...

The Chess Turk was designed to play chess against any ... In 1950, a mathematician Claude Shannon published his research “Programming a Computer for Playing Chess” in which he estimated ...