Author: Steve B
Date: 07:53:17 10/10/04
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>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5926388121 > >;>) > >I know some of us are old, but we're not that old. > >Steve - any comments? > i saw that auction this morning,when i went through my typical Sunday constitutional through Ebay not only did the seller get it wrong about the 1950's but in the auction description,the seller jumps to a recollection of playing with the CC7 in the 1960's of course the CC7 was first released in 1978 this is very similar to a study i just read about ,in which scientists were able to plant false memories into volunteer's minds which were then fiersely defended by the volunteers. the study asked people what did they recall of their first meeting with Buggs Bunny when they visited the Disney Land theme park in California in the 1960's when they were small children 30% of the group recalled very found memories,touching his tail,etc,etc of course Buggs Bunny was not a Disney Character and of course could not have been at the Disney Land theme park Whats Up Doc Regards.. Steve > > >There are two books about the "Turk" > >one is by Standage (sp?) > >http://www.janmag.com/features/turkexc.html > >The other book is by Levitt and occasionally you can grab it on ebay for about >$25. Book collectors are more interested in the Levitt book, it is published by >Mcfarland who are the premier (highest qualty workmanship) chess book publishers >in the US. > >From Scientific American >" >It was an impressive showpiece: a fierce-looking, turbaned puppet seated at a >cabinet bearing a chessboard. Its successive owners from 1770 to 1854 would open >the cabinet to display to an audience an array of gears and springs and then >would invite a spectator to play a game of chess with the Turk, as the turbaned >figure came to be known. The Turk usually won. Audiences and chess players were >impressed. But it was a grand hoax. Jammed uncomfortably into the cabinet, kept >from the audience's view by legerdemain, was a "director," a human chess player >who observed by candlelight the moves made by the opponent and operated the >pantograph that executed the Turk's responses. " > >http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0786407786/qid=1097417001/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-5636990-5681525?v=glance&s=books#product-details
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