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Chess: Man Verses Machine by Ewart, Bradley, 1932- is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Chess: Man Verses Machine about?

Chess: Man vs Machine is the first complete book on the subject and contains the first comprehensive, completely illustrated analysis of how the automatons operated. It explains how the automatons won their games by outplaying, harassing, and even terrorizing their adversaries. For those readers who are deeply involved in the game of chess, there is an ample selection of the best games played by automatons. As readers follow the adventures of the chess automatons they also learn of such mechanical wonders as the panharmonicon, the Automaton Trumpeter, Pepper's Ghost, and Psycho, the automaton whist player, which awed theatergoers and museum patrons from the late 1700s to the early decades of the twentieth century. Versailles, the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, and the Cincinnati Cen-tennial Exposition are among the picturesque locales readers visit to see this engrossing story played out. There are complete chapters on computer chess, including develop ment of the inexpensive miniaturized devices that have recently become available. Accounts of fictional chess automatons will surprise readers who are unaware that chess-playing machines have inspired more than 30 works of fiction-novel

Author

Ewart, Bradley, 1932-

Publisher

A.S. Barnes; Tantivy Press; A S Barnes & Co

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780498021671

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, History