The Turk, Chess Automaton by Gerald M. Levitt (McFarland, 2000).
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The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous 18th-Century Chess-Playing Machine, by Tom Standage (Walker & Co., 2002), also published as
The Mechanical Turk: The True Story of the Chess-Playing Machine that Fooled the World (Allen Lane - the Penguin Press, 2002).
Presentation,
Excerpt.
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en espańol,
comparison with Levitt's book.
Monster in a Box, an article adapted from the book by its author.
Der Türke: die Geschichte des ersten Schachautomaten und seiner abenteuerlichen Reise um die Welt, von Tom Standage, übersetzt von Thomas Merk und Thomas Wollermann (Campus, 2002).
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