The Chess Machine by Robert Löhr

The Chess Machine

Robert Löhr with Anthea Bell (Translator)

344 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

fiction historical thriller adventurous slow-paced
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In 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen introduces Vienna to the Mechanical Turk?an unbeatable chess-playing automaton that, unbeknownst to an astonished Europe, is in fact nothing more than an illusion. The Turk is actually operated from within by a...

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