From 1770 until its destruction by fire in 1854, it was exhibited by various owners as an automaton, though it was exposed in the early 1820s as an elaborate hoax. The Turk, also known as the Mechanical Turk or Automaton Chess Player (German: Schachtürke, “chess Turk”‘ Hungarian: A Török), was a fake chess-playing machine constructed in the late 18th century. Find more of his games, downloadable as PGN files at. His works, writing and interviews, in particular the notion of the ready-made and his translation puns, were essential to this project. Instead, his main interest was chess, which he studied for the rest of his life to the exclusion of most other activities” (Source: Wikipedia). Upon his return to Paris in 1923, Duchamp was, in essence, no longer a practicing artist. He moved to Paris in 1919, and then back to the United States in 1920. He carved from wood his own chess set, with the assistance of a local craftsman who made the knights. “In 1918, Duchamp took leave of the New York art scene, interrupting his work on the Large Glass, and went to Buenos Aires, where he remained for nine months and often played chess. Marcel Duchamp (28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was one of the leading thinkers and artists of the 20th century that acknowledged a great debt to (and at times obsession with) chess, eventually achieving the rank of chess master. Know for his elegant endgame theory and play, he is Aaron’s favourite player and one of the main inspirations for this project. Due to his achievements in the chess world, mastery over the board and his relatively simple style of play he was nicknamed the ‘Human Chess Machine'” (source: Wikipedia). One of the greatest players of all time, he was renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play. José Raúl Capablanca (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) “was a Cuban chess player who was world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
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