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7th October 2007, 07:11am
#1
by doctor-ice
bellingham,ma United States
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 242

Who is this strange person sending me e-mails that i am late with my move or my game is over from chess.com?(tongue-in-cheek) The only turk i know is from final fantasy 7-the shin-ra agent. Although i have fond memories of that game,i would really not like to hear from this dangerous character! Please elucidate the raison de etre for using this name to represent chess.com in my e-mails!SmileTongue outLaughing

7th October 2007, 07:30am
#2
by Etienne
Montreal, Quebec Canada
Member Since: Jul 2007
Member Points: 780
The Turk is a famous chess-playing automaton of the 18th century, which was actually a hoax, however.
7th October 2007, 07:36am
#3
by batgirl
NC United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 4445

"The Turk is a famous chess-playing automaton of the 18th century"

 

(please insert: "and 19th century.")


7th October 2007, 09:44am
#4
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 10092
the turk was supposed to be an "automatic machine", and since the turk sends out email automatically, we use that :)
 
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