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The Adventures of Ajeeb. The Wonderful Chess Automaton. Pamphlet. 24 pages. No author credited. Deltje and Cutting Printers and Stationers, New York probably 1885.
The Adventures of Ajeeb is a late-19th-century pamphlet written to promote Ajeeb, a famous chess-playing automaton. It describes the machine’s appearance, exhibitions, and chess matches, presenting Ajeeb as if it possessed real intelligence, even though it was secretly operated by a hidden human player. The booklet reflects Victorian fascination with machines that seemed to think like humans.
Condition: Binding loose. From David DeLucia's Chess Library.
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