Mechanical Chess Opponent (Jul, 1951)
I love how they speak in absolutes “never makes a mistake”, “perfect chess techniques”. I’m worndering how it could possibly play chess at all. My guess is that what they mean is it always makes a legal move, i.e. pawns don’t go sideways.
Also, does that board look a little small to you?
Mechanical Chess Opponent
Chess fans can play solitaire against a machine that never makes a mistake. Invented by a Spaniard, the machine teaches perfect chess techniques. Whenever an error is made in play, a light flashes on automatically.
I remember reading about a “mechanical chess computer” that could solve simple endgame problems: it computed the next move for King verses King plus Rook using a simple algorithm which ensured a checkmate.
Here’s a Wikipedia article about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org…
The board looks fine to me.
When I saw the article, I thought of the machine invented by Torres y Quevedo. It “never made a mistake” because it didn’t really play a full game of Chess, only a Rook and Pawn endgame.
And so the previous comment is correct.
When the wizards aren’t using Hex for spell checking, they use it to play chess.
(I saw the “Hogfather” movie.
Hex has nice penmanship.)
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