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... chess player that defeated Frederick the Great , George III , and Napoleon ( whom it caught cheating ) and nearly fooled all America RAKE BOOK ROOM , NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY By ERNEST WITTENBERG.
... chess player that defeated Frederick the Great , George III , and Napoleon ( whom it caught cheating ) and nearly fooled all America RAKE BOOK ROOM , NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY By ERNEST WITTENBERG.
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... chessboard eighteen inches square permanently affixed to the top of the chest , and his left hand held a long - stemmed clay pipe . The contrivance was a mechanical chess player , which , its promoter announced , would meet - and beat ...
... chessboard eighteen inches square permanently affixed to the top of the chest , and his left hand held a long - stemmed clay pipe . The contrivance was a mechanical chess player , which , its promoter announced , would meet - and beat ...
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... champion whatever , either American or European , I wish to challenge the automaton chess player to play a match of three full games on its return to the city . The match to be contested for love or money , as Mr. Mael- zel pleases . If ...
... champion whatever , either American or European , I wish to challenge the automaton chess player to play a match of three full games on its return to the city . The match to be contested for love or money , as Mr. Mael- zel pleases . If ...
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THE TOWN THAT STOPPED THE CLOCK by Cabell Phillips | 22 |
ÉCHEC by Ernest Wittenberg | 35 |
Second class postage paid at New York N | 50 |
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