Abstract
Although Computer Chess is the principal topic of this book, I think it worthwhile to acquaint the reader with two, pre-computer attempts to mechanize the game of chess. The more notorious of the two was the Automaton Chessplayer built by Baron von Kempelen and first exhibited by him at the Royal Palace in Vienna in 1770.
‘In the opening a master should play like a book, in the middle game like a magician, in the ending like a machine’
Spielmann
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Levy, D., Newborn, M. (1982). Chess Machines. In: All About Chess and Computers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-85538-2_1
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