The Turk Chess Machine -- Groks Science Show 2003-04-30
Groks Science Radio Show and Podcast · Charles Lee and Frank Ling
May 1, 2003
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Show Notes
Deep Blue may currently be the most famous chess-playing machine, but it was certainly not the first. In fact, the development of chess-playing automata may have originated with an elaborate eighteenth-century hoax known as The Turk. On this show, we explored the unique history of this innovative machine with Tom Standage.