'Built in 1770, The Mechanical Turk was the first chess robot.' 'but he has a secret.' 'he isn't actually a robot! There is a chess player hidden inside.' 'can you guess who it is?' 'Chess demands total concentration.' That's what he said to me in the first moves. Then he's like, 'I underestimated you.' when he caused a +M4 (or me). Then he says, 'of course.' He acts like the previous bots, though, saying things like, 'lets go back' and 'no problem' when i takeback. But there's a glitch, if you resign after you takeback, he doesn't say anything. Or, even when I resign straightaway. My game with him didn't save, but I checkmated him. He's easy when you turn everything on.
what's up with the new bot "the mechanical turk"?
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Aug 6, 2025
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#44
It's cabablanca obvs cos it mentioned about Spanish and also I noticed : it says wen u beat it ' u r stronger than Alekhine but the machine was destroyed before Alekhine was born so how could he have proof if he's never played Alekhine?
sometimes he plays like 100 elo and then suddenly like a 2000+ elo, i beat him multiple times, sometimes he sacs his queen for no reason so yeah
Mar 27, 2026
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#46
don't think it's capablanca. searched it up it says Johann Allgaier, Jacques Mouret, William Schlumberger, William Lewis, and Aaron Alexandre.
maybe its hard to say
Or maybe that event happened a year ago.