Download or read book Maelzel's Chess-Player written by Edgar Allan Poe and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-29 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maelzel's Chess Player is an essay by Edgar Allan Poe exposing a chess player called The Turk. The latter had become famous in Europe and the United States and toured widely. Yet most of his fame was attributed to fraudulent automation methods of chess-playing, which became the main topic of the presented book.