I'd read that ChatGPT had not fared particularly well against some computer Chess systems. Skeptical, I decided to dust off ...

Audiences watched in awe as it defeated opponents across Europe. But behind the scenes, a skilled chess player hid in a cabinet, moving the pieces in secret. While everyone marvelled at the wooden ...

The Mechanical Turk, also known as the Automaton Chess Player, was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. The invention was designed by Hungarian engineer and inventor ...

The different techniques based on multi-modal human-computer communication introduce new directions in the usage of the information systems. This paper presents a system which is able to play chess ...

Another famous 18th-century automaton was The Turk-an amazing chess-playing machine invented by Wolfgang von Kempelen in 1770. Unlike Maillardet's automaton, a real mechanical wonder of its time ...

Modern chess-playing programs are so strong that even top players can hardly keep up, see Fig.11. The tide turned with the defeat of the then world chess champion Garry Kasparov against IBM’s Deep ...

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 ...

The recently-launched chatbot has convinced users that it thinks like a person, but its interior is filled with an arcane statistical soup of code and complex linguistic connections ...

Ingenious illusions like “The Turk” were needed to make a chess-playing machine with the technology available in the 18th century. But by the early 20th century, technology had progressed enough to ...

These popular matches of the Turk were also covered by various leading newspapers and magazines at that time. So the machine was not *the* best chess player on the planet, but it was still very good.