The Robot Chess Player Scam

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  @primalspace · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  *Correction: Napoleon played the Turk in 1809, not 1826, Napoleon was dead by then. My bad, just copied the wrong date (the start of the US tour) &nbsp;- Shoutout to GroundNews for making this video possible - get 40% Off the Vantage plan here: <a href="https://ground.news/primal">https://ground.news/primal</a>

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• CH

  @chess · 2 years ago

  The Turk was a tease for the future, for when machine eventually would pass man.

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• AM

  @Amonimus · 2 years ago

  What I find more impressive is that several chessmasters have agreed to work under such uncomfortable conditions, won anyway, and took no credit.

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• UN

  @unvergebeneid · 2 years ago

  Can we for a second admire the fact that the mechanism could grab a chess piece and place it accurately on the board, with very little force required? That&apos;s astonishing for the time!

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• TH

  @TheUltimegaMan · 2 years ago

  You know it’s a good trick when after it’s explained to you, you’re still impressed.

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• S.

  @S.Y.S.64738 · 1 year ago

  I&apos;m more impressed none of the operating chess masters ever had to sneeze.

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• JA

  @JawRippa · 2 years ago

  Honestly, it is impressive how a chess master would be able to reliably win in such uncomfortable conditions.

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• CH

  @Chill-Ice · 2 years ago

  But that means technically that chess master was in like the top 1% for chess. Crazy

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• TH

  @TheAmazingCowpig · 2 years ago

  I don&apos;t know what&apos;s more impressive, the actual mechanical operation of the whole thing, or the operators/chessmasters inside managing to do their part and never being discovered while also operating the thing correctly.

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• MH

  @mh4392 · 1 year ago

  What amazes me is that none of the thousands of people that saw the machine demanded both doors to be open at the same time.

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• KE

  @KelvinDethoften · 2 years ago (edited)

  &quot;We&apos;re losing to a mechanical chess robot, what do we do?&quot;<br>&quot;There&apos;s nothing we can do.&quot;

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• I_

  @I_Will_Geek · 2 years ago (edited)

  Fun fact: When Amazon shut down their cashierless stores, it was revealed that it didn&apos;t solely run on AI, but heavily relied on outsourced labor, managed by another service which Amazon called &quot;Mechanical Turk&quot;

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