Ajeeb
Ajeeb was a chess-playing "automaton", created by Charles Hooper (a cabinet maker),[1] first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868. A piece of faux mechanical technology (while presented as entirely automated, it in fact concealed a strong human chess player inside), it drew scores of thousands of spectators to its games, the opponents for which included Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and O. Henry.
Ajeeb's name was derived from the
Solomon Lipschuetz was one of Ajeeb's notable opponents during this period.[5] The machine also played checkers, matching against figures such as 1920s American champ Sam Gonotsky, who would also direct the machine under the ownership of Hattie Elmore.[6]
In the history of such devices, it succeeded the Mechanical Turk and preceded Mephisto.[7][8]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-387-94930-5. Retrieved 2009-03-10.
ajeeb chess.
- ^ "Constant Ferdinand Burille". Chessville. Archived from the original on 2010-09-19. Retrieved 2010-02-14.
- ISBN 9780786458684.
- ISBN 9781349352685.
- ISBN 9780786495962.
- ^ Kidwell, Peggy Aldrich. "Playing Checkers with Machines—from Ajeeb to Chinook." Information & Culture 50, no. 4 (2015): 578-587.
- ^ Chess Automatons Archived 2008-10-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ ChessBase :: Spotlights :: Der Schachtürke Archived 2009-03-12 at the Wayback Machine
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