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The Turk and it's Directors:  as well as those of other automatons
March  2006

 

TURK   1769-1854 AJEEB   1868-1940's MEPHISTO   1878-1889
 

France and Germany:
Johann Allgaier
Aaron Alexandre
Boncourt
Weyle
England:
Jacques-François Mouret
Peter Unger Williams
William Lewis
W. J. Hunneman
United States:
William Schlumberger
Lloyd Smith

Charles Edward Hooper
Albert B. Hodges
Constant Ferdinand Burille
Doc Schaefer
Peter J. Hill
Sam Gonotsky
Charles F. Moehle
Charles Francis Barker
Harry Nelson Pillsbury 
Jesse Hanson
Isidor Gunsberg
Jean Taubenhaus






 

Archives by Title

links

personal

Sarah's Serendipitous Chess Page
The Life and Chess of Paul Morphy

chess - general

Chesslinks Worldwide

chess - history

Mark Week's History on the Web
Chess Journalists of America
Chess History Newsgroup
Hebrew Chess
Chess Tourn. & Match History
Super Tournaments of the Past
La grande storia degli scacchi
Bobby Fischer
Bill Wall's Chess Pages

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