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Vienna 1770 - Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange and amazing invention, the Mechanical Turk, a sensational and unbeatable chess-playing automaton. But what the Habsburg court hails as the greatest innovation of the century is really nothing more than a brilliant illusion. The chess machine is secretly operated from inside by the Italian dwarf Tibor, a God-fearing social outcast whose chess-playing abilities and diminutive size make him the perfect accomplice in this grand hoax. But wh...Show more
Book details
ISBN
9780670916368
Publisher
Fig Tree
Published year
2007
Language
English
Original title
The Secrets of the Chess Machine
Format
Paperback
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