Programme . s * Senor Torre y Quevedo, who claims to have invented a chess-playing machine, had a forerunner inBaron von Kempelen, who, at the beginning of last century, travelled through Europe with what he de-scribed as an unbeatable chess automaton in the likeness of a Turk. Kempelen used to conceal a man inthe chest on which the Turk was seated, but so ingenious was the contrivance that for a long time every-body was deceived. Napoleon played chess with the pseudo-automaton when stopping at Schonbrunn,after the battle of Wagram. He lost the first game, and in the second deliberately made t
Programme . s * Senor Torre y Quevedo, who claims to have invented a chess-playing machine, had a forerunner inBaron von Kempelen, who, at the beginning of last century, travelled through Europe with what he de-scribed as an unbeatable chess automaton in the likeness of a Turk. Kempelen used to conceal a man inthe chest on which the Turk was seated, but so ingenious was the contrivance that for a long time every-body was deceived. Napoleon played chess with the pseudo-automaton when stopping at Schonbrunn,after the battle of Wagram. He lost the first game, and in the second deliberately made two false pieces were replaced each time, but on the Emperor making a third false move the Turk swept all thepieces off the board. {Daily Chronicle, London, Summer of 1914.) t See in The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing by Seba Smith (Boston, 2d ed., 1834) LetterLXIX. (page 231), dated Portland, October 22, 1833, in which Cousin Nabby describes her visit to Congregation of
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