which chess player is inside the mechanical Turk?

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YOUR RIGHT!

"...this month it is World Champion Jose Capablanca! Good luck!"

Look Here!

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He has 1 million elo he defeated emperors and GM in 10 sec

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Apparently it wasn't François-André Danican Philidor. He played a match against the Turk and Philidor won.

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Its jose capablanca
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If im being honest i cant tell who it is in the chess com bot mechanical turk. It seems to be carlsen or fischer to me

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Oh sorry i didnt see the other comments

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People were saying that it was the people who played inside the mechanical turk when it was a real thing and not a chess.com bot

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Am i this late to these comments

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I copy-pasted a bunch of voice lines that sounded like quotes and they were all from Fischer

Like if you want to improve, start by studying endgames

If you play differently, you'll merely lose differently

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your mom

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maybe it's a normal people

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Taco bell

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Wild guess, but I think it's Bobby Fischer, provided we are not going off of historical accuracy, as some of these prior guesses don't. He said, "Tactics flow from a superior position", which is a famous Bobby Fischer quote

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I think it is the mitten. In the game review it had the elo similar to the mitten bot

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Mammoth Mia mamma Mia lemmi go Levi go
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My guess would be bobby fischer, beacuse of the quotes- " tactics flow from the superior position" and "I am the best player in the world and, I am here to prove it".

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Jose capablanca
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Those who controlled the Turk and made the moves were called "Operators."

A short and incomplete history:
The Turk (1769-1854) was built by Wolfgang Ritten von Kempelen who displayed in intermittently. After he died in 1804, it was bought by John Nepomuk Maelzel. He improved upon it and exhibited it on mainland Europe from 1805-1805 (during which time Napoleon played against it). He sold it to Napoleon's step-son, Eugene Beauharnais who just wanted to own it. in 1817, Maelzel bought it back from Beauharnais, He exhibited it in Paris then sailed to England in 1819. Maelzel was a showman and traveled with a wide array of mechanical spectacles to attract a paying audience. He returned to mainland Europe in 1821. In December 1825, he sailed to the US and displayed from Boston to New York to Philadelphia to Baltimore, sailed to New Orleans, went to Nashville, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and finally sailed to Havana in 1837. The his operator, Schlumberger, died of Yellow Fever. Maelzel also caught the disease and died during the return trip to the States.

*France and Germany (1769-1817):
first operator is unknown
Johann Allgaier
Aaron Alexandre
Hyacinthe Henri Boncourt
(first name unknown) Weyle

*England (1819-1826):
Jacques-François Mouret
Peter Unger Williams
William Lewis

*United States and Cuba (1826-1838):
a French woman, the wife of one of the operators of Maelzel's (the owner) other contraptions, operated the Turk for a month or so, playing only memorized endgames. 
Wilhelm Schlumberger (Schlumberger and Maelzel both died in Cuba)
Lloyd Smith (from around 1840-41)
The Turk, in storage at the Chinese Museum, Philadelphia, burned in a fire in 1854.