Author: Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Maelzel's Chess Player is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a chess player called The Turk. The latter had become famous in Europe and the United States and toured widely. Yet most of his fame was attributed to fraudulent automation methods of chess-playing, which became the main topic of the presented book.