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Subject: Re: Deception and Enchantment in the Life of the Automaton Chess Player

Author: Mark Ryan

Date: 01:52:56 04/26/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 18:58:05, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Very interesting, but even more is the work by Poe to demostrate the
>imposibility of the automaton being a real machine playing chess. Inm fact what
>he probes is the imposibility to conceive modern comuter as mechanisms, but of
>coyurse he did not know about computers...I have always considered the pice by
>Poe as a master work of pure, deuctive reasoning scarcely aided by empirical
>facts. The works is named "The Maelzel chess Player" or something of the
>sort....
>Fernando

Hi:  "Maelzel's Chess Player" by Edgar Allen Poe can be found at
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/POE/maelzel.html
Cheers,
Mark




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