‘The machine being set in motion’: the automaton chess-player in urban and literary culture, 1839–1851
| Autor: | John Sharples |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Literature
History ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Modernity ComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTING Physical Therapy Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation Art GeneralLiterature_MISCELLANEOUS Motion (physics) Automaton Set (abstract data type) GEORGE (programming language) Literary culture business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Sport in History. 41:181-212 |
| ISSN: | 1746-0271 1746-0263 |
| Popis: | This article examines nineteenth-century chess-player and writer George Walker’s essay ‘Anatomy of the Chess Automaton’ (1839). Walker’s writing frequently highlighted how spaces of urban modernity... |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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