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First chess player - Complet device

Torres Quevedo Museum

Torres Quevedo Museum
Madrid, Spain

Between 1910 and 1912, Leonardo Torres Quevedo developed one of his most emblematic projects: 'The Chess Player'. It is an automaton that was able to play chess and to win a human being. It was an analogue system and layed out a simplified game in which the machine played with two pieces (the white king and tower) and it was able to win in 63 movements, based on an algorithm in which it was programmed. Leonardo Torres Quevedo constructed his first chess player in 1912 and it was a trial model that he presented in Paris in 1914. The chess players do not play a complet game but a final play of the tower and king against king. The chess player drives the white pieces and their movement is based on a complex mechanism consisting of shafts, drums...

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  • Title: First chess player - Complet device
  • Provenance: Leonardo Torres Quevedo donation. Originating from the Laboratory of Automation in 1928., Leonardo Torres Quevedo donation. Originating from the Laboratory of Automation in 1928.
  • Type: Automaton, Automaton
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