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 true ChessManiac.com Team Member 2006-07-23T20:42:00-07:00 2006-07-24T03:45:37Z 2006-07-24T03:45:37Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308785.post-115371273755666996 South Carolina Chess Master Aleksander Wojtkiewicz Dead
Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, an internationally ranked chess player and a native of Latvia, died of an intestinal hemorrhage July 14 in Baltimore.

Aleksander Wojtkiewicz (January 15, 1963, Riga - July 14, 2006, Baltimore) was an International Grandmaster of chess. He was Polish by nationality but was born in Latvia, USSR; his last name was originally spelled Vojtkevic. He was jailed by the Soviets for two years because he refused to serve in the Soviet Army. When Poland regained independence he moved from Riga to Warsaw where he won two Polish Chess Championships.
 false ChessManiac.com Team Member 2006-01-15T00:39:00-08:00 2006-01-15T08:43:32Z 2006-01-15T08:43:32Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308785.post-113731461297960652 THE AUTOMATON CHESS-PLAYER (PART III)

Dr. Osloff was a passionate lover of chess, and had played numerous games with his patient during his tardy convalescence; but Worousky was so strong at the game that the doctor was always defeated. Then Kempelen joined the doctor in trying to defeat the skillful player, but it was of no use; Worousky was always the conqueror. His superiority gave M. de Kempelen the idea of his famous Automaton Chess-player. In an instant his plan was formed, and he set to work immediately; and the most remarkable circumstance is, that this wonderful chef-d'oeuvre, which astonished the whole world, was finished within three months.

M. de Kempelen was anxious that his host should make the first trial of his Automaton; so he invited him to play a game on the 10th of October, 1769. The Automaton represented a Turk of the natural size, wearing the national costume, and seated behind a box of the shape of a chest of drawers. In the middle of the top of the box was a chess-board, with the pieces, for play.

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false ChessManiac.com Team Member 2006-01-15T00:33:00-08:00 2006-01-15T08:38:56Z 2006-01-15T08:38:17Z tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308785.post-113731429719815145 THE AUTOMATON CHESS-PLAYER (PART II)

In an earlier pamphlet, published in Paris in 1785, the writer supposed the machine was put in motion by a dwarf, a famous chess-player, his legs and thighs being concealed in two hollow cylinders, while the rest of his body was out of the box, and hidden by the robes of the figure.
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