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Have you ever wondered how a mechanical chess-playing robot from the 1700s could defeat the best players of its time?
In this video, we uncover the fascinating story of the Turk, a legendary automaton that mesmerized audiences and confounded experts for almost 90 years. We'll delve into the intricate mechanisms and clever illusions that allowed the Turk to operate, revealing the truth behind its enigmatic moves and lifelike actions.
Join me as we model the Turk to demonstrate its workings and explore the legacy of one of history's greatest hoaxes. Be sure to stick around until the end of this video to learn more about our next giveaway.
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00:00 Introduction to the Turk
01:20 The Creation of the Turk
02:33 The Turk's European Tour
03:13 Johann Maelzel and the American Tour
05:08 The American Tour Continued
06:51 The Turk's Secrets Revealed
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Written and edited by Ewan Cunningham ( / ewan_cee )
3D Modeler: Orkun Zengin
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@primalspace 3 дня назад

*Correction: Napoleon played the Turk in 1809, not 1826, Napoleon was dead by then. My bad, just copied the wrong date (the start of the US tour) - Shoutout to GroundNews for making this video possible - get 40% Off the Vantage plan here: ground.news/primal

@pyeitme508 3 дня назад

I can't but IBM Deep Blue can. :P

@Aarush.A.S 3 дня назад

@@pyeitme508 what about stokfish 16.1

@ReadTheShrill 3 дня назад

I suspect Amazon's Mechanical Turk was named after this device. It allows people to get simple, repetitious jobs (eg. labeling pictures), completed by real humans in remote locations. I always wondered where that name came from. And now I know! 👍

@W0nk0Th3San3 2 дня назад

I could easily beat a Turk. What's chess?

@woahmamaawoogahonkahonka 2 дня назад

Ground News just made me more biased lmao. Right wing sources are consistently less reliable and lower factuality / quality as rated by the site itself.

@chess 3 дня назад

The Turk was a tease for the future, for when machine eventually would pass man.

@ArcXDZ 3 дня назад

When is the Chess update coming out?

@Fujinon 3 дня назад

Meow

@OG-Productions 3 дня назад

Stock fish 16

@how.to.do.stuff.101 3 дня назад

What is up chess

@legitusername-zl7to 3 дня назад

@@ArcXDZthe turk and stockfish collab gonna be fire

@Chill-Ice 2 дня назад

But that means technically that chess master was in like the top 1% for chess. Crazy

@primalspace 2 дня назад

Exactly. Unfortunate that someone so talented would be so unknown. But what an amazing secret to be holding onto as well haha

@pdstor 11 часов назад

@@primalspace Par for the course for 18th century chess, sadly.

@johnwong5317 11 часов назад

Not surprising. In Ancient China, many innovate things often taken up credits by relatives of high officials while the talents people remain unknown behind the scene and not allow to show themselves or theirs talents in public.

@unvergebeneid 3 дня назад

Can we for a second admire the fact that the mechanism could grab a chess piece and place it accurately on the board, with very little force required? That's astonishing for the time!

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Agreed!

@paul8731 2 дня назад

Yeah, I mean surely the arms would knock over other nearby pieces. And how did the operator know for sure when it was gripping a piece properly.

@filval387 2 дня назад

@@paul8731 He would see his own pieces magnet rods. If the rod didn't fall down when he picked the piece, it meant it hadn't gripped properly. I assume that if the piece fell during a movement or if it knocked another piece in the process, the owner could fix the board and just claim it was the machine not being 100% reliable.

@tozpeak 2 дня назад

He would also feel the grip by how hard it is to twist further. It's similar to using any tool with a string - you just learn to feel it as extention of yourself with a little practice.

@paul8731 2 дня назад

Yeah good points! What a clever idea. I can imagine the excitement when the inventor had the idea and realised all issues were covered. Must have been quite grueling for the operator, with just a candle and a cramped space. They probably got a sore neck from looking at the magnets too. And imagine if they knocked their own replica board by mistake. Oops.

@theodoreolson8529 3 дня назад

6:55 is the start of the explanation. In my opinion, the really amazing part is how they recruited so many chess masters to play in the machine and how they managed to keep the secret for so long.

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Thank you for sharing the time stamp. For anyone interested, I also leave titled time stamps in the description of each video for those who'd like to skip ahead. And I agree! So many amazing players - I can't imagine that secret would be kept so long had it been touring in recent years.

@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX 3 дня назад

Lol to be fair though, it's probably because they didn't live in the information age, and so there was no Twitter or tiktok to share and gain clout on

@SnoopyDoofie 3 дня назад

Those chess masters almost certainly made no money playing chess (unlike today with large prizes). So offering them a lot of money was probably a good idea. After all, the audience had to pay to watch.

@ReddwarfIV 2 дня назад

Like the 18th century version of The Stig

@queeg6473 2 дня назад

@@ReddwarfIV some say he had cronic back pain....

@GeekIWG 3 дня назад

Fun fact: When Amazon shut down their cashierless stores, it was revealed that it didn't solely run on AI, but heavily relied on outsourced labor, managed by another service which Amazon called "Mechanical Turk"

@user-cr3ti1vj6f 3 дня назад

yeah, they were using Indians, not Turks

@CAMSLAYER13 3 дня назад

@user-cr3ti1vj6f they called it that in reference to the subject of this vid, not because they were using turks

@rjayme5 3 дня назад

The ironies of late capitalism: first, the company was caught red-handed exploring cheap labour while pretending it was AI. Then, said this information was “misleading and inaccurate”. In the end, they decided to make this a product, with the audacity of ironically naming it after a fake robot from the 1700s. I couldn’t believe this was actually the name. Thanks for the info @GeekIWG.

@1marcelfilms 2 дня назад

sir do not redeem

@Benetheburrito 2 дня назад

Unfortunately that's not true, the outsourced labor was just as a failsafe in case the algorithm got it wrong. Nearly all of the transactions were recorded without human input

@shuban863 3 дня назад

Despite the fact that it was obvious that it was not a real chess machine, the clever tricks to convince the audience that it was, was really the key to this amazing invention 👏

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Absolutely!

@Jcorry123 День назад

The smoke from the operator's candle was allowed to escape via the Turk's pipe - ingenious.

@manamanaman День назад

Yeah I mean I'm almost more impressed by the mechanism put in place to pull this off than if it was an actual fully automated machine 😂

@TheAmazingCowpig 3 дня назад

I don't know what's more impressive, the actual mechanical operation of the whole thing, or the operators/chessmasters inside managing to do their part and never being discovered while also operating the thing correctly.

@aldrinmilespartosa1578 2 дня назад

The funny thing is that Napoleon tried to cheat while playing it, the chess master Coughton wind of it, then destroyed the whole set lol.

@Lanuzos 2 дня назад

And also beating their highly skilled opponents on top of

@democard1199 День назад

@@aldrinmilespartosa1578 Deserved. Massive L for a cheater.

@mitchgrove4086 3 дня назад

As disappointed as I am to find that nobody hundreds of years ago worked out the clockwork to nearly guarantee a win in chess, with a humanoid robot involved, I sure am impressed at the tenacity of the robot's creator in finding so many well-practiced chess-matters to crawl in that box and operate it in such a complex manor!

@rileycorrigan5593 День назад

Honestly though, even a simple chess engine would need to be a huge room of clockwork parts. The transistors used in modern day computers are less than a millionth of the size a clockwork component would need to be.

@zubair8378 3 дня назад

1700-1800s: We got the turk. 2000s: We got stockfish.

@wojtekpolska1013 День назад

stockfish is a noob martin is the real best chess player

@zubair8378 День назад

@@wojtekpolska1013 That's propaganda, spread by martin.

@soundspark День назад

Remember Deep Blue? Wonder if a RTX card could blow Deep Blue out of the water in chess performance.

@cetologist День назад

@@soundsparkRTX card is just the hardware. Graphics cards can't play chess. Software plays chess.

@soundspark День назад

@cetologist You'd think someone would have written an AI model by now to do so.

@FallSkyX 3 дня назад

It's astonishing how none of the chess masters inside the Turk ever made a mistake while switching positions in such a confined space. Although it was evident that something was definitely up, I initially thought it might be remotely controlled by a chess master using some ingenious mechanism. However, upon realizing the Turk was from the 1700s and 1800s, and that the first instance of wireless communication wasn't until 1849, it made sense that wasn't the case. 💀

@ASlickNamedPimpback 3 дня назад

3:02 why does old art depict kids as just mini adults 😭

@agapitoliria 2 дня назад

I had to stop there to be equally amused and horrified by the drawing

@roymarshall_ День назад

In those days kids were mini adults

@jeromejomon9311 День назад

Literally just MC Java baby villagers.

@lexnight8345 День назад

... kids were uglier, so they drew mini adults 🤣🤣🤣

@sunshineskystar День назад

they are uglier due to the stress so only the nobles looks like present day children. if you ever go to a third world countries you will notices children looking older than they actually look, some even have wrinkle of a 30 year old. or maybe the painter can only use adult male as a model since children are as always unruly and impossible to be told to hold still for 30 minutes straight.

@notoriousbigmoai1125 3 дня назад

It's still impressive that the hidden person managed to beat all the good chess players while sitting in a very cramped and stuffy position. This wouldn't be possible without a highly skilled and patient individual.

@Knokos 21 час назад

Its literally just playing normal chess while taking a little bit more time on each move.

@999benhonda 2 дня назад

Dang...the board only showed the chess master when pieces had been moved, the chess master had to be able to track which pieces were moved...with only candle light in a cramped space.

@ryancappo 21 минуту назад

Since the starting position of all the pieces was known, it isn’t too bad to keep track. But yeah, if any mistakes were made, it would have been bad.

@erikziak1249 3 дня назад

The inventor Johann Wolfgang von Kempelen (German name)/Ján Vlk Kempelen (Slovak name)/Kempelen Farkas (Hungarian name) was born in Pressburg/Prešporok/Pozsony (DE/AT/HU), then part of the Kingdom of Hungary, today the capital of Slovakia, named Bratislava. It was a multicultural city with ethnic Austrians, Slovaks, Hungarians, Croats and others. Kempelen is famous not only for his Turk, but in Bratislava he created also a water pump and pipes that transported water from the Danube uphill to the castle. He is also the inventor of a mechanical speaking machine and a machine that enabled blind people to write letters. Truly a genius of his time.

@cccyanide3034 3 дня назад

As other commenters pointed out, it was kind of expected that the machine was human-operated. There simply was no way to store this amount of information on physical storage at the time.

@XxZeldaxXXxLinkxX 3 дня назад

Your last sentence probably wouldn't even make sense to the people of that time period though

@samholdsworth420 2 дня назад

What would they store it on Baghdad hard drives?

@cccyanide3034 2 дня назад

@@samholdsworth420 Paper or metal cylinders, like they did for the first automata.

@samholdsworth420 2 дня назад

@@cccyanide3034 o yeah lol

@terrenceshibata2983 2 дня назад

Go build me a Sentry

@adamb89 23 часа назад

Imagine being one of those two kids who climbed on the roof, actually DID see someone climb out, you actually DID know how the trick worked...and until the end of your days nobody believes you.

@primalspace 22 часа назад

You just know they were telling that story to anyone who would listen!

@TheeRandomGuy 3 дня назад

My first instinct was a series of mirrors similar to the Peppers Ghost illusion hiding a person. Such a smart workaround with the candlelight through the machine maneuver

@primalspace 3 дня назад

I love that theory. Thanks for sharing and thank you for watching. Good luck in the giveaway.

@boboboz9541 День назад

im still convinced there's a man hiding inside the ATM machine at all times.

@ArthurGibson-cz2dy 12 часов назад

Underated😂

@primalspace 12 часов назад

💀💀💀

@Tkonk 3 дня назад

I definitely would have thought it was controlled by a person but I never would have figured out how they were folded into it. Great visualizations as always.

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Thanks so much. Glad you enjoyed the video and good luck in the giveaway!

@Grayham14 3 дня назад

My -20 elo could never 💀

@Aarush.A.S 3 дня назад

😂

@ethanmartinez808 3 дня назад

🫂

@redsbricks5993 3 дня назад

Rather suspicious that all the doors never remained open all at once… You can never assume something is true later in time arguing it was true before, and this applies to everything, even science!

@AdolphusEudora 3 дня назад

That's one of the central tenets of magic: misdirection. Having your audience look in spaces that you want them to see, instilling in them a false sense of security that what they see is the real deal or to the doubters, to see the places you know they be seeing instead...

@ulz_glc 3 дня назад

learning basics of magic tricks and playing puzzle video games like Portal (2) taught me how easily I can miss something, even if I am 100% sure there cant be anything important that I could have missed. I think reflecting on that made me much more cautious when accepting "facts" and made me more open to new perspectives and opinions from other people.

@anonymousanon4822 23 часа назад

I think they actually were and that was why it was so convincing. It was just that the candle door to show that there was nothing behind the mechanism was only done with the right door closed

@UmVtCg 21 час назад

And yet even Edgar Allen Poe thought the guy was in the dummy.

@cinnamonflavord 2 дня назад

Even though it's not a robot, it's still impressive for the person inside the box to still beat all of those famous people

@IlayKimhi День назад

I thought that the player opposing the machine is cooperating with the machine operator and just playing a set of known moves agreed upon before the show. Then, the operator somehow codes a sequence of moves into the Turk's arm with a complicated mechanism. That would probably be too complicated tho :D

@truehealthkei 7 часов назад

It is possible that some of the challengers(the strong chess player) are cooperating with the machine operator to convice the rest that The Turk is unbeatable.

@Domus_Maximus День назад

I'm sure I'd seen another video on The Turk previously, but this was really done and very very well presented. Great video!

@primalspace 12 часов назад

Thank you so much - so glad you enjoyed it!

@petervarga2399 3 дня назад

Amazing animations and a fascinating story. It is very impressive how everyone involved kept the secret.

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Impressive indeed. Thanks for watching and good luck in the giveaway!

@Bluen1x 3 дня назад

Awesome video man! This was very well explained and detailed. Honestly, I wasn't in any shape or form sure how he could see underneath the objects. But because of this video, You have helped out a ton with the matter. As said before, awesome video. I am not even sure how you only got less than a million subscribers.

@dead_space. 8 часов назад

amazing! I always get invested into these videos after a long day it’s always refreshing to see how stuff from yesterday is explained and shown today.

@wordlespoems 3 дня назад

Cool, but when is Chess 2 coming?

@TsunamiX2 3 дня назад

If we get chess 2 before gta 6 im gonna explode

@Sensuous_Owl 3 дня назад

It already has, but it's full of DLCs and the campaign isn't as good...

@jaktheawesome 3 дня назад

Oat Jenkins made it I think lol

@ordinarryalien 3 дня назад

Haha, I love this overused joke (no, I don't 😑).

@wordlespoems 3 дня назад

@@ordinarryalien first

@drewhailstones4106 3 дня назад

This is quite fascinating, i have watched multiple videos on the Chess player Turk but i love how you explain it, simply and without fluff, but you get the point across. Also great voice. PS. Could you in the future do a video on Hugo Cabret's Automaton? (if you can)

@Voetrix 3 дня назад

This story is so good. I love your videos.

@primalspace 3 дня назад

So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and good luck in the giveaway!

@Giorgio2466 3 дня назад

Although I already knew the story, you kept me engaged all throughout the video with your amazing storytelling!

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Thank you so much! I'm so glad that you enjoyed the video - it means a lot!

@ZARCHA07 3 дня назад

I really like Science behind mechanical things especially those things invented in past history like Turk, and this is one of your best video💯!

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it.

@gaveintothedarkness 3 дня назад

Fantastic story telling!

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Thank you!

@bosco7837 День назад

The Turk came right before what is universally considered the Golden Age of magic in Europe. It cleverly uses a lot of principles of modern stage magic. The way the trunk appears to be empty but isn't, for example. No wonder it caused such a stir at the time, it's a great illusion.

@TheWhiteWhistle 2 дня назад

That’s such an awesome mechanism! I honesty guessed that a very thin set of strings were being used to operate the hands from a catwalk or platform above. That little pointer mechanism was definitely my favorite part. Wonder if Carlson will ever volunteer to go inside a remake of this :D

@primalspace 2 дня назад

Awesome indeed. Thanks for watching and good luck in the giveaway!

@ForFormulaOne 3 дня назад

I thought that a person was there under the skin of the turk 👍

@massimilianokemp 3 дня назад

Amazing story telling 😊

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Thank you.

@mohamedyoseef3855 2 дня назад

Did you see that it is another deeply researched topic that that took so long to be researched we love your videos keep it going

@jonahwoodward503 3 дня назад

I doubted that it was mechanical, but then a little disappointed that the answer was kind of expected. I wondered if it would be some sort of mechanical computer with pressure plates on the board, but the dangling magnets were a neat idea.

@AdolphusEudora 3 дня назад

Leonardo Torres Quevedo created in 1912 a legitimate chess playing automaton called "El Ajedrecista". It is an electromechanical device that can only play an endgame of three pieces: one black king, one white king, and a rook...

@unvergebeneid 3 дня назад

There is absolutely no way a mechanical computer could've beaten high-skilled players back then. So of course the answer was what you had expected 😊

@racionador 2 дня назад

magicians today do the exact same trick all the time and nobody question them, its part of the show.

@toddfraser3353 2 дня назад

To actually be competent at chess the clockwork would have to be insanely huge.

@raggedclawstarcraft6562 3 дня назад

Damn I were hoping it was a mechanical magnet-based analogue computer.

@vascomanteigas9433 2 дня назад

After restauration, it uses and actual computer (a Raspberry Pi are enough) and GNU-Chess.

@raggedclawstarcraft6562 2 дня назад

@@vascomanteigas9433 still, I'd be cool if it was for real a mechanical computer from the 18th century. I would blow my mind. Pity the whole thing was just smoke and mirrors.

@vascomanteigas9433 2 дня назад

@@raggedclawstarcraft6562 it would need a ten fold sized Analytical Machines coupled to the Turk to at least resemble the earliest 1950 Computer Chess programs, that was at par on an amateur.

@raggedclawstarcraft6562 2 дня назад

@@vascomanteigas9433 I know. You don't need to tell me. But still it'd be cool if they were come up with something other than a big fraud, basically.

@UmVtCg 21 час назад

@@raggedclawstarcraft6562 It took until 1967 for a computer to beat a (regular) human opponent and until 1997 for Deep Blue to beat Grandmaster Gary Kasparov. And you thought a mechanical computer somehow could achieve a similar result. LOL Have you ever played chess?

@DeputyNordburg 2 дня назад

As soon as the elaborate "look inside these doors and here's a candle thing" I knew there was a person inside. It's still amazing.

@matiszkielet 3 дня назад

The magnet mechanism is so clever!

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Agreed!

@thefolap День назад

That's actually impressive to see how they think of all this tricks and mechanics back in the day. Amazing Video!

@primalspace 21 час назад

So glad you enjoyed it. Good luck in the giveaway!

@KavTheBrave 3 дня назад

That’s definitely a tight fit for all of those chess masters to play hundreds if not thousands of games in😂. Great explanation and video!

@TechnoThornYT 2 дня назад

I can’t believe such intricate mechanisms existed back then! I had a suspicion that there was an operator inside the Turk, but didn’t know how it would fit in the box.

@techny3000 2 дня назад

Honestly I would've thought it had something to do with the floor _below_ the turk some doors and a sliding chair sounds far more simple lol

@Mac_system 3 дня назад

really cool Animation and Grafik, wats the programm your using ?

@maxrabiega592 3 дня назад

Amazing engineering this is. Would’ve been really cool if this was around.

@T1k3mys0n 2 дня назад

Very impressive for both the machine and the chess masters to be able to play in such condition.

@primalspace 2 дня назад

Indeed!

@prasadgaikwad5343 2 дня назад

Being a chess fanatic and also a mechanical engineer, I also tried to create something similar in my college days. It revived my college memories. Thank you for this fantastic video.❤

@primalspace 2 дня назад

Very cool! I feel like so many of us share that interest, so I was really looking forward to sharing this one. So glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for watching. Good luck in the giveaway.

@UmVtCg 21 час назад

Finally, an animated video which shows the inner working of this magicians chess trick. But where did the smoke and fumes of the candle inside go?

@primalspace 21 час назад

There was a tube that ran up through the Turk's body and carried the smoke out the top of his turban. To cover up the smell of the candle, the presenter always placed a candelabra on the cabinet.

@MiG-25IsGOAT 20 часов назад

@@primalspace Dude that's insanee, they even hide something so hard like the smoke of the candle, you should have put that in there

@elhafydymohamed4078 23 часа назад

To be able to play well even from inside a box with inconvenient controls is amazing

@primalspace 22 часа назад

Agreed! And to be that good and keep it a secret.

@user-qh7vg2lw9w 2 дня назад

Excellent video, I have never seen such good detail and presentation of information as here. I have a theory: The mechanism inside the box could initially, during its production, remember all the possible moves of the opponent (this explains the large size of the box, which would have stored a bunch of mechanisms for each cell and figure), and when the opponent moved, the position of the mechanism blocked all losing options and selected the best one (by winding up the mechanism on the cage, the location of the opponent’s figure and the Turk’s piece when the mechanism of the cell and the piece came into contact, the losing version of the robot was blocked by the contact of two gears (the cell and the piece), creating a “jamming” of the mechanism of the losing version and starting the backup mechanism (a new move of the Turk) , and then this chess robot continued to work :)

@HiddenWindshield 13 часов назад

The number of possible legal chess moves is roughly equivalent (within a few orders of magnitude) to the number of water molecules on the Earth. An average grain of sand contains about 5*10^19 atoms. So, if every move was encoded in just one grain of sand, the Turk would need to be larger than the orbit of Jupiter.

@onehida3936 4 часа назад

Wow, this video was incredible! I had no idea about The Turk not that it's mysterious and fascinating history. It's amazing how it fooled so many people for so long. Great storytelling and really well put together!

@MrMurphdog96 8 часов назад

I love chess but i'd never heard of this. What a great video! Cheers from Australia :)

@leukos7339 День назад

I think the most well thought part was the mechanism to hide the chess master

@queeg6473 2 дня назад

I remember reading about this when I was at school, 40 years ago. It's strange the weird bits of information that get stuck in your brain for years.

@Astrawboy_NameAlreadyInUse День назад

wtf. The chess masters seeing the magnet move to know what chess piece it is??? Must be very skilled.

@jcy089 Час назад

So in 90 years, not a single hidden chess master ever sneezed, coughed, needed to go to the loo or bumped against the table? That's amazing.

@ChefBarry День назад

Definitely had to be an operator, loved this video (signed up for the poster too, we love chess and it would be a brilliant addition to our office!)

@primalspace 12 часов назад

So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching and good luck in the giveaway!

@JashJacob 3 дня назад

Brilliant piece of pick and place mechanism! Genius!

@HritwRaje День назад

How long would a session usually last? Considering that the hidden chess masters were human and would require (probably multiple) candles to light up the insides, and also stay put until the Turk was in a safehouse before crawling out for a restroom break, is astonishing.

@Bl4ckw0lf1 2 дня назад

What is interesting was how they kept the light from leaking out for the hidden chess player.

@RIHItex 9 часов назад

I love this type of old and smart machines. Very creative.

@Qwerty-li5ij 2 дня назад

I'm just amazed how the guy thought of all of this.

@henrybubu_ 3 дня назад

I first saw the Turk inside of a engineering textbook in high school. As a fan of Chess myself, it seemed to be very impressive. Until I learned that this, was completely human operated, although it was a quite genius.

@AaryanNagarkatti 2 дня назад

Amazing, but if the operator accidentally dropped a chess piece and it fell over, how would it get put back? I guess the showmaster would pick it up and put it back to the same square?

@JP_Fan563 День назад

Primal space’s videos are amazing!

@primalspace 21 час назад

Thank you. I'm so glad you enjoy them!

@gudhampter 2 дня назад

Thats amazing, I've always thought that there was a human inside but i didn't know where that person sat

@dashsmash2665 23 часа назад

I want that turk poster for my room because it's pretty bare bones rn. Love the content, man ❤

@primalspace 22 часа назад

Thank you! So glad you enjoy it. Good luck in the giveaway!

@creativohugo 2 дня назад

This machine inspired the creation of textile machines, which up until that point were considered impossible to create, a little lie was needed to inspire a future reality

@mayarajawat5927 2 дня назад

I thought the turk used some sort of an early analog computer and to know the position of the pieces magnets with the help pulleys. I would love that poster btw

@primalspace 2 дня назад

A great guess. Thanks for sharing and for watching, and good luck in the giveaway!

@AKG58Z День назад

The system was complex for that time engineered nicely, the whole time i was like "who could be this great who can beat everyone easily".

@BeamRider100 11 часов назад

I remember seeing something like this when I was a kid at an antique shop, looked super old, it'd talk and move it's arms, gave me the creeps.

@AmanSShah 3 дня назад

Impressive how the huge table was transported to many places and no one noticed. Such a huge box might take time and people to set up and they all kept it a secret

@joegabnagana3496 13 часов назад

Crazy how that worked, couldn’t have guessed about the two doors trick

@jamesisaac7684 13 часов назад

Try The masked magician videos. Hiding a person is a lot easier than you think

@myself3209 Час назад

I still think its very impressive how someone plays chess that well under such complicated conditions

@benjamincalloway 2 дня назад

I suspected there was a chessmaster inside, but I never would have though about the slider and secret door trick!

@-Raylight 8 часов назад

*"Laughs in opponents' face"* Ok cheating is one thing, but this... This is getting out of hands xD

@ganimedescabreralanuza1786 3 дня назад

I tought about a mechanical computer using magnets to know the information about the position of the pieces on the chess board

@vector_747 2 дня назад

Never expected primal space to upload a video about chess

@primalspace 2 дня назад

I couldn't help it. I was way too excited about this topic not to share 🤣🤣

@IronMan3582 9 часов назад

I remember seeing something about this on The History Channel but at the time it didn't disclose how it operated. It did say it could tell if the opponent was cheating and would knock over the pieces to call out the tomfoolery. I knew it had to do something with magnets, but I'm hella disappointed to find out that it still relied on someone inside to carry out the ruse. I guess the idea of a fully clockwork capable device was beyond the reach of the technology of the time

@Magitek85 21 час назад

I was convinced that it must have been aliens until you explained it at the end.

@RefleXInutile 3 часа назад

To be honest I thought someone would just enter the empty space from behind or below after showing the machinery, truly amazing for its time

@talasattila6401 7 часов назад

The craziest thing is that the chess master who was able to beat even the best, chose to pass his fame to a contraption for the sake of the magic trick. Best magic trick ever. Total devotion for the job

@breakexsplorer 3 дня назад

I actually thought that someone was hiding there. But cleverly done

@augustinf День назад

How on earth has no chess player ever coughed, sneezed, grunted or made any slight noise in 70 years? They were a few centimeters below their opponents. There is no way no one did not feel that human presence

@b43xoit День назад

See one hour later.

@UncleFeedle 23 часа назад

Von Kempelen thought of this! First of all, the machine was quite noisy and constantly whirred when in use. This was just a loud clockwork mechanism that Von Kempelen would make a big show of winding up at the start of each game. Also, the machine was fitted with a device which the operator inside could activate at any time which would trigger a loud twang. This was enough to mask any sound, such as a sneeze, which might give the game away.

@devpatel1140 3 дня назад

This was something new to learn about 😊l

@primalspace 3 дня назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Skillissue855 2 дня назад

I wonder how long it took for the person who operated the Turk to learn how to use the Turk

@C21H30O2 6 часов назад

That ground news transition 💯

@arte-factmaths.3988 День назад

It was very impressive of the inverter to have thought of this idea and aplouse to all who kept the secret for like a 100 years.

@primalspace 12 часов назад

So true. I'm still surprised how long it remained a secret.

@Adamtherealboss 19 часов назад

I knew someone was inside but could't figure out where.

@baths4carsraspberrypicomputer 21 час назад

it looks very cool to see how it really worked

@primalspace 21 час назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching and good luck in the giveaway.

@drewbockler1220 18 часов назад

One prevalent theory regarding the operation of the Turk chess machine proposed that it employed a sophisticated system of gears and levers controlled by a series of intricate mechanical movements. Advocates of this hypothesis believed that the machine's outward appearance of autonomy was maintained through a complex network of interconnected mechanisms, meticulously calibrated to analyze chess positions and execute corresponding moves. This theory suggested that the Turk's ability to play chess with such precision and strategy was a testament to the advanced engineering capabilities of its time, showcasing a mastery of mechanical principles that allowed it to simulate human-like intelligence and skill on the chessboard.

@hobbithd1112 2 дня назад

I knew that somebody sat inside of the turk , but after you described that it was all opend , i thought maybe Poe was right and somebody dressed as this maniquin

@kez963 2 дня назад

Many 80's robot's where remotely operated but this is really well known :D

@lolycuss3137 День назад

great stuff, honestly i thought that it was just someone in a suit

@SuperEmmetMan День назад

The memory of the chess masters must be insane to remember the locations of all the chess pieces

@user-xh9pu2wj6b День назад

While it's possible to remember the entire position (blind chess is played even today), in this case the operator had their own set of pieces to move around so they don't have to remember the position.