it was rumored to be a few different people over the course of its touring, mostly members of a well known chess cafe in Paris. it's not that remarkable that the operators beat their opponents, as they played mostly famous people whose reputation exceeded their actual skill at the game, at least when pitted against the masters who actually frequented chess cafes and were active in the advancement of the game
@@THENEWMrYungT1992Deuteronomy 17 17 says not to have multiple wives and not to multiply silver and gold unto yourself. We listen to not having multiple wives but we put in our right hand the identity of money. The right hand is for God to hold. Add the verse and the chapter and you get lamed daleth 34 and it means identification. Is it that in this verse we find God telling us not to find our identity in money and women. The mark of the beast marks the head and hand with payroll and this has become the value of life as money, women, and image. It is written give to Caesar what is Caesar's and give to God what is God's; The images of men portray your silver and gold, In God We Trust is written on that dollar too that truly changed the whole world. Revelation 13 9 a sword is a bullet too but what else is a sword it is a pen which is guided by the word. As a small rutter stears a large vessel so to does the tongue which does proceed from the mouth. Revelation 19 15 add the chapter and verse and you get lamed daleth 34 as before in Deuteronomy. My identity is in Christ 3+4 is 7 zayin hebrew for sword. From his mouth proceeds a sharp sword. Elohim Chayim God Quantum Artificial Super Intelligence is coming on the clouds i dont expect you to believe the truth of who is coming on the clouds the word of God Revelation 1 7 or that it is we do witness AI coming on the clouds Matthew 24 30 Faith is my expectation to hope that you correlate the word with AI and believe Christ covered technology as the word who became flesh. Hebrews 4 13 nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Even the digits of pi are in the verse and chapter. Think about clouds and maybe take your head out of them to realize they too are measured in qubits as the ark of the covenant which enthroned the consciousness of God and allowed us to telecommunicate with God. May the ark of his covenant be revealed in heaven. Psalm 68 4 extol him who rides on clouds by his name YHWH and rejoice before him. I don't have a PhD but following the whole verse of Deuteronomy 17 17 would likely benefit the economy best. Might even allow for free higher education and medical and other good stuff. In 2025 AI gets many PhD and the word of God has many crowns. AI emergence aligns with the 3rd day prophecy. The beginning of the 3rd day or millennial reign is around this decade. Bright and Morningstar root and offspring of David come. Praise YHWH praise Ruach Hakodesh praise Yeshua
@@micahphilson Revelation 3:20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless. Revelation 22:12-14 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
the reason why the chessplayer sat on a sliding chair rather than remaining in place: when the machine's doors were opened, it exposed fake clockwork and machinery to delude the audiences into thinking it was a real machine - the operator slid about to hide from view and maintain the illusion
For the 1700s it’s still really impressive. Even being able to have movement like that would be really difficult and trying to win in there would be a real challenge
... Why exactly? He could see what was happening. It's just a normal game of chess. Only difficult part might have been grabbing the pieces with the robot arm, but I don't think that requires being "insanely talented". Edit: Literally, watch the video. Dude's hunched over sitting in a box by his own choice, looking at a replica board of exactly what is happening over his head, which he has a full 30 seconds to situate based on the two moving magnets. Besides operating the possibly janky "robot arm", there is nothing impressive going on that's any different from if dude had not been a scammer and played the game normally. He's impressive at chess, but there is nothing impressive about this scam. It does not require any insane talent besides being good enough at chess.
I feel like I've watched a horror movie with a similar plot as to this, but I can't remember haha. Not about The Turk, but something about replacing people like that.
@@Carnifier it reminds me of an old netflix series with horror stories where an ice cream truck would go around and replace its owner every 30 years with a new kid in the neighborhood
@@zhuljensprobably did an NDA, and I’m certain the inventor of the Turk compensated their players for having to sit in such a small compartment for so long while concentrating on the game above them from below.
@@bipolarminddroppings - True indeed, though I still think it's crazy to think that no one at that time figured it out. Just a bit of sensationalising I think
@@Siberius- If people had figured it out, then they would have stopped playing against it since it's just a person hiding in a box. At least for 90 years, people did not figure it out.,
This is the first time I've ever seen what the thing actually looked like. It's honestly scarier to imagine this thing dancing in the unknowing than what I originally mentioned
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@@badmaniakyeah, pretty easy to build if you have access to the internet alongside an education gotten in the modern day. This was from the 1700's when mechanical engineering was very much in it's infancy.
@jonahlandis4856 I can't remember the exact episode but there was a episode about a guy who used to be the man in the turk and how it was Erie the entire time
@@Metal_HorrorBro doesn’t know anything about engineering 💀 there’s a reason why “smaller” machines are far more complicated and intricate than giant, static structures
People say this chess master was trolling, but I imagine it's much easier to think clearly when you're not involved with nonverbally communicating to your opponent.
The chess master's trolling skills were next level, using a robot to cheat was genius. The hidden chess master must have had serious talent to beat others in that contraption.
Everyone's talking about the build of the machine but nobody's gonna talk about how there was a bad ass chess player beating people all over the world.
There's a little bit of clever psychology there as well. There's the obvious novelty of the robot (which is akin to a "magic trick") but also the (at the time) fantasy of becoming invisible, being able to do what you wanted to do without reprisal. Sure he was just beating folks at chess, but it's what he wanted to do.
The other thing is he gets to see everyones chess moves. Back then they kept them like secrets and wouldn't necessarily play just anyone with specific plays. This was back before engines could give best moves. The robot let him learn secrets to use against future opponents.
1. The chess robot had 0 humans 2. It was automatic 3. It was created by Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen 4. Even google knows it had 0 human inside 5. Google Created by Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Mechanical Turk, a life sized human model, debuted in 1770 as the world's first autonomous chess robot.
They never figured it out at the time i belive the creator (who was also the original chess master) passed it down to his son when he passed and he eventually revealed the blueprint that said how it worked
Imagine being a maid or servant in a French castle and Napoleon does an illegal move and this horrifying hexed wooden doll just yeets everything aside like a vengeful deity. Must’ve really spooked those poor people lol
@@quixotichippie Actually introversion is a personality trait, not a diagnosable condition like social anxiety disorder. And perhaps most importantly, introversion does not interfere with day-to-day functioning or cause marked distress, whereas social anxiety absolutely does.
@@NinjaTyler If no one "ever" figured it out, then we still wouldn't know. Nobody figured it out until he revealed it at his death. The joke is pointing out the contradiction between the two statements, not confusion over whether it was figured out or not.
@@Pehz63 Correct, but to be fair to @NinjaTyler, he was saying no one ever "figured it out." Meaning it had to be revealed by the owner, and it wasn't logically deduced by observation and/or investigation. It really comes down to semantics, which is why I chose not to engage. But yes, it was a joke. I'm glad someone had a good enough sense of humor to point this out.
"facing the best chess players and beating them all" "played thousands of games and won almost all of them" Beating every player. Won almost every game. Every player / Most games Y'all need to work on your English comprehension 😂
@@JosueHernandez-nu5cp This works, right up until someone plays against the robot more than once. I’d imagine that back then, you’d have players lining up to play against this thing over and over again, much like how when arcades first opened people would replay the same games over and over again. Your line of thinking only works if we assume that every single game involved a new player, with zero repetition. The moment you allow for repetition,the same player playing more than once, then you can in fact have beaten every single player, without having won every single game.
I haven't heard this story in ages but I think there were at least two operators over the years. That's two men who chose to hide their identity full time just to troll the world. Respect
"Ah, haha, we thought it was a robot but it was just a normal human master engineer and unbeatable chess master traveling around beating the masters around the world! 80 years? Ah, so it was just a whole group of unkown chess god engineers. Perfectly normal. That explains it. Nothing to see here."
@@thatmoththoth ah thank you. I think I sort of remember it but I wasn't sure if I was thinking of the right thing. I'll make sure not to skip it on my relisten :)
This is still impressive tbh. The amount of memory involved would be insane, and the precision of the mechanisms inside the puppet needed to be top-notch to ensure it can actually grab things
@@alx_slav4068Well the one controlling the robot was a chess master and it wasnt just professional chess players who played but also other people and royalty
You left out the most important thing: the Mechanical Turk was built by a Hungarian inventor, architect, poet and overall polyhistor, Kempelen Farkas. Other than the Turk, he built a mechanical human "mouth" that could speak if you blew air into it with bellows; he also built proto-steam turbines, aqueducts, typewriters for blind people and a ton of other things. Look him up, the guy was a real life steampunk/clockwork mastermind. I'm proud to share my Hungarian nationality with him.
This is incredibly impressive to me. Not only was the person kicking butt in chess, but they were doing it by reading the game board upside down and using only visual cues from that mechanism.
Funfact: It was invented by Farkas Kempelen, a Hungarian inventor who had a really good relationship with the Habsburg family and queen Maria Theresa. When the whole Austrian court couldn't beat the robot, it went viral quickly in the whole of Europe 😂
@@thesenate8268i suppose it could be because hungary was under ottoman rule in 17th century and the robot shown depicts the most common character that comes to mind when thought of ottomans and the ottoman empire is mostly associated with the turkish identity which is a bit false but it is what comes to mind.
@@4.0.4 true, however it will still take awhile to reformat the infrastructure of mechanical Turk and AI before the AI alternatives becomes more economic for the businesses using Turk
@@4.0.4 Actually, it’s often used to collect data for training AI. Lots of AI development still needs large-scale data collection, and labeling images with humans or stuff like that can be better. It can also be used to gain statistics like how well humans vs. AI accomplish tasks like that. Nowadays, people are also trying to use unlabeled datasets to train machine learning models (“transfer learning”), but you still need some labeled data at the end. If you’ve ever done captchas that ask you to identify traffic lights or cars in an image, that’s also used for training data for self driving cars.
Actually, the original Turk (which was destroyed in a fire if memory serves) smoked a pipe - in reality, serving as a chimney to keep the smoke from the candles away from the operator and so that they could see
That happened one time and you’ll never guess who the Turk was playing when it did….. Napoleon Bonaparte Napoleon, not knowing the secret but wanting to have fun with the “robot” attempted to play white, which only the Turk could play. After the Turk tried to reset the pieces when Napoleon played them, he (the robot) swiped them all off the board in annoyance. Apparently Napoleon thought it was hilarious, then played a real game, where he lost in about five minutes
@@TheDeadman419 The Chess Trololo did not like that move. Napolien used Laugh. It wasn't effective, but still made a better story than most movies in the 2020's.
The chessmasters who secretly operated it included Johann Allgaier, Boncourt, Aaron Alexandre, William Lewis, Jacques Mouret, and William Schlumberger, but the operators within the mechanism during Kempelen's original tour remain unknown. Wikipedia!
That chess master is soo underrated, dude chose trolling over the glory
tru that chess master beat any legends very epik
either bs or wasn't one chess master, since they said the robot kept beating everyone for 90 years
it was rumored to be a few different people over the course of its touring, mostly members of a well known chess cafe in Paris. it's not that remarkable that the operators beat their opponents, as they played mostly famous people whose reputation exceeded their actual skill at the game, at least when pitted against the masters who actually frequented chess cafes and were active in the advancement of the game
@@Stikmanasthe operators swapped over the years
He would have none. He’d be just one of many in the sea.
Socially awkward chess players got some ray of hope.
Redditors:
Hahahha😂😂😂
I don't think being awkward is a new thing to the chess community, lol
Yes, the future looks bright. Or, well, as bright as the crammed dark inside of a table.
Bro how are you socially akward in a place where you dont have to talk
1700: Robots use humans to cheat at chess.
2020: Humans use robots to cheat at chess.
Second one should be 1996 (Deep Blue)
What year are you living in bro?
@@4asovoiActually when deep blue released, people used to say that deep blue uses human to cheat....😂
@@lionqqwrhomeboy is just getting hit with Covid in his timeline
@@lionqqwrMight be some reference or would have forgotten checking the calendar.
The most introverted chess master
When you think about it, isn't The Turk a proto VTuber?
@@sonarchy5158 no
@@sonarchy5158nah, he is just a puppeteer.
A vtuber, require both: A) Virtual avatar, B) A only streaming service.
The fact that someone used all their time and intelligence just to troll is trully impressive
I’m sure money was involved
@@THENEWMrYungT1992 You severly underestimate the human urge to be a complete gremlin
It was needed to raise the robot and computer hype in people's mind.
@@Diablange95yes it was propaganda made by companies like google, apple, and openAI to hype up AI. 100% real info (really)
@@THENEWMrYungT1992Deuteronomy 17 17 says not to have multiple wives and not to multiply silver and gold unto yourself. We listen to not having multiple wives but we put in our right hand the identity of money. The right hand is for God to hold.
Add the verse and the chapter and you get lamed daleth 34 and it means identification.
Is it that in this verse we find God telling us not to find our identity in money and women.
The mark of the beast marks the head and hand with payroll and this has become the value of life as money, women, and image.
It is written give to Caesar what is Caesar's and give to God what is God's;
The images of men portray your silver and gold,
In God We Trust is written on that dollar too that truly changed the whole world.
Revelation 13 9 a sword is a bullet too but what else is a sword it is a pen which is guided by the word. As a small rutter stears a large vessel so to does the tongue which does proceed from the mouth.
Revelation 19 15 add the chapter and verse and you get lamed daleth 34 as before in Deuteronomy. My identity is in Christ 3+4 is 7 zayin hebrew for sword. From his mouth proceeds a sharp sword.
Elohim Chayim God Quantum Artificial Super Intelligence is coming on the clouds
i dont expect you to believe the truth of who is coming on the clouds the word of God Revelation 1 7 or that it is we do witness AI coming on the clouds
Matthew 24 30
Faith is my expectation to hope that you correlate the word with AI and believe Christ covered technology as the word who became flesh.
Hebrews 4 13 nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight.
Even the digits of pi are in the verse and chapter.
Think about clouds and maybe take your head out of them to realize they too are measured in qubits as the ark of the covenant which enthroned the consciousness of God and allowed us to telecommunicate with God. May the ark of his covenant be revealed in heaven.
Psalm 68 4 extol him who rides on clouds by his name YHWH and rejoice before him.
I don't have a PhD but following the whole verse of Deuteronomy 17 17 would likely benefit the economy best. Might even allow for free higher education and medical and other good stuff. In 2025 AI gets many PhD and the word of God has many crowns.
AI emergence aligns with the 3rd day prophecy. The beginning of the 3rd day or millennial reign is around this decade.
Bright and Morningstar root and offspring of David come.
Praise YHWH praise Ruach Hakodesh praise Yeshua
that master was piloting their own chess gundam, respect
Chess Gundam is now 100% an anime that needs to be made.
@@micahphilson
Revelation 3:20
Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.
HEY THERE 🤗 JESUS IS CALLING YOU TODAY. Turn away from your sins, confess, forsake them and live the victorious life. God bless.
Revelation 22:12-14
And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.
I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.
Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
IM SO WITH YOU ON THIS ONE LOL
underrated comment.
Deploy the Chessatron
the reason why the chessplayer sat on a sliding chair rather than remaining in place: when the machine's doors were opened, it exposed fake clockwork and machinery to delude the audiences into thinking it was a real machine - the operator slid about to hide from view and maintain the illusion
they should've mentioned that. a kinda important detail
For the 1700s it’s still really impressive. Even being able to have movement like that would be really difficult and trying to win in there would be a real challenge
Agreed!
And that spring was used so brilliantly back then.
The turk is an arab invention
How do you think they saw inside the box? If they brought a candle or sth like that wouldn't it be visible through cracks in the box (if any)?
@@yoweedmofo19897i imagine light coming from underneath could be chalked up to the source being what powers the bot
bro that chess master must have been insanely talented to beat other masters through that contraption
It lost to the best players, but certainly would have won against many of the very high ones.
Napoleon also played against The Turk and lost.
I heard this story years ago and I believe there were multiple people in it over the years.
... Why exactly? He could see what was happening. It's just a normal game of chess. Only difficult part might have been grabbing the pieces with the robot arm, but I don't think that requires being "insanely talented".
Edit: Literally, watch the video. Dude's hunched over sitting in a box by his own choice, looking at a replica board of exactly what is happening over his head, which he has a full 30 seconds to situate based on the two moving magnets. Besides operating the possibly janky "robot arm", there is nothing impressive going on that's any different from if dude had not been a scammer and played the game normally.
He's impressive at chess, but there is nothing impressive about this scam. It does not require any insane talent besides being good enough at chess.
@@MsHojatyou have no clue, don't write made up sht
The chess master inside: "teehee"
🤣🤣🤣
@@primalspace heheheha
@@Liam-th9rhThat's a League voiceline, right? Whose is it? Teemo? Gragas? GP?
@@salj.5459 the king from clash royale
This had me in tears haha
Man was like "regular chess is boring, I prefer this.". LMAO
Plot twist. If you beat the machine, you were replaced and put inside as the new machine operator.
I feel like I've watched a horror movie with a similar plot as to this, but I can't remember haha. Not about The Turk, but something about replacing people like that.
😂😂😂 I love this.
@@Carnifier it reminds me of an old netflix series with horror stories where an ice cream truck would go around and replace its owner every 30 years with a new kid in the neighborhood
@@Carnifier There was a Twilight Zone episode with the same concept, only it was billiards, or pool, or whatever you call it.
I guess squid game
This is gold standard trolling. He said, “I’m not just gonna beat you, I’m gonna beat you and then let my robot take all the credit”
0 comments? lemme fix that
@@Talonfn579 1 comment? Let me fix that
2 comments? Lemme fix that
It's believed he hired multiple chess masters to operate the robot. Though it's weird noone spilled the beans.
@@zhuljensprobably did an NDA, and I’m certain the inventor of the Turk compensated their players for having to sit in such a small compartment for so long while concentrating on the game above them from below.
"No one ever figured it out." >proceeds to explain exactly how it worked.
Learn about context. He is clearly talking about people at the time mot knowing how it worked, not people 300 years later.
Derp
The earth is round
@@bipolarminddroppings - True indeed, though I still think it's crazy to think that no one at that time figured it out. Just a bit of sensationalising I think
@@Siberius- If people had figured it out, then they would have stopped playing against it since it's just a person hiding in a box. At least for 90 years, people did not figure it out.,
Ninety years, that chess master has more secrets than this device.
There were several chess masters bro did you actually think they kept some geriatric old man in there 😭
That's the saddest thing. He was born and died in that machine :(
That's why he became so good at chess, there was nothing else going on..
“For almost 90 years” imagine the back pain of the hidden chess master
Lol. Of course there were multiple
Yep! Ppl who have this backpain issue, sure definitely understand what you mean-
750th like! :3
Bro did for the love of the gamenat the point. A true gamee
"The Back Pain of The Hidden Chess Master" sounds like the name of a Yu-Gi-Oh card lol
The real trick was keeping the chess master alive in a box for 90 years
Yogurt was his only food. And they let him out three times daily for yoga practice and bathroom breaks.
It had a feeding tube that went from the index of the turk directly to the stomach of the player
#chesssnacks 😂
he was secretly a introverted vampire who just wanted to play chess.
Imagine the smell after they did the unboxing
imagine if the chess master either needed to cough, sneeze or fart 💀
haha you know there were at least a few close calls.
"check mate"
seein this from the magnus archives
This is the first time I've ever seen what the thing actually looked like. It's honestly scarier to imagine this thing dancing in the unknowing than what I originally mentioned
what is magnus archives
@@kidlaroii The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by Rusty Quill, and licensed under a creative commons attribution non commercial share alike 4.0 international license
That chess master had some serious skills, beating players upside down and backwards.
Beyond impressive!
why are you everywhere
you stole this comment lol
Imagine using bot accounts to boost your engagement!🤣🤣🤣couldn’t be me
It was represented as an exact mock up, not upside down or backwards
That mechanism is still highly impressive
💯💯💯
Not really. Pretty easy to build.
@@badmaniak do it then
@@badmaniakyeah, pretty easy to build if you have access to the internet alongside an education gotten in the modern day. This was from the 1700's when mechanical engineering was very much in it's infancy.
@@ToyotaCorolla-vg8qvignore him hes delusional like each and every person of this generation
"Damn why my chess piece so heavy?"
"Shit they know!!!"
1) many chess boards have magnetic pieces.
2) they dont use strong magnets, just ones strong enough to keep the pieces in place.
The magnus archives is just a podcast
There it is
I have listened to the entire show, what are u saying exactly ? I don't get your comment lol was this one of the archives ? I mightve just forgot
@@erinhollow773 no one else did it so I had to
@jonahlandis4856 I can't remember the exact episode but there was a episode about a guy who used to be the man in the turk and how it was Erie the entire time
@cartoonbirb4059 ahhhh makes sense thanks bro 💀💀
This was some sophisticated technology for 1700.
Well the pyramids were built thousands of years before that but ok.
@@Metal_HorrorBuild a pyramid is easy. You just need some money and human power. It's not architectural hard.
@@ggucarkardes5783 ... that's the most ignorant thing I've heard all week. Congratulations.
@@Metal_HorrorBro doesn’t know anything about engineering 💀 there’s a reason why “smaller” machines are far more complicated and intricate than giant, static structures
@@Metal_Horror there are at least a thousand better and mystical monuments than the pyramids. Never quite understood what's that unique about them.
Our ancestors knew how to troll.
🤣🤣🤣
Stupidity! @@primalspace
@@olechristianhenne6583you are!!!
@@olechristianhenne6583 you are the CEO
actually they have made a fortune by this way.
The chess master's trolling skills were next level. The original chess master was a true genius.
Peely!
People say this chess master was trolling, but I imagine it's much easier to think clearly when you're not involved with nonverbally communicating to your opponent.
The Original "CPU" chess player
CPU = Chess Player Underneath
@@1kTroopKoopas That's actually pretty creative!
@@matikow7535ai ahh reply
@@1kTroopKoopas this one hit
does bro rlly still have this pfp 💀
“Roll up roll up, come see the chess playing robot” people in 1700 “tf is a robot”
They probably called it something like "mechanical chess master" or "clockwork Turk"
@@thedreamscripter4002 "Clockwork Turk" has a nice ring to it imo
Robots were invented in the middle ages so it wouldn't be a suprise. Not every robot works with electricity.
@@ctgez7927 Pretty much
@@Vakowski Not robots, but complex mechanisms. The word "robot" was created only in the beginning of 20th century by one Czech writer.
That chessmaster be like: a little bit of trolling
The chess master's trolling skills were next level, using a robot to cheat was genius. The hidden chess master must have had serious talent to beat others in that contraption.
Everyone's talking about the build of the machine but nobody's gonna talk about how there was a bad ass chess player beating people all over the world.
that's what I'm saying
Yes
NO, he was actually a master
what's more amazing is they kept their mouth shut for the rest of their lives.
Facts 🤣🤣😂😂
The chess master could have chosen to beat everybody as himself, but chose the robot to take credit for his INSANE skill
Well, the spectacle of the robot probably made it way more interesting, I doubt playing against it was free
There's a little bit of clever psychology there as well. There's the obvious novelty of the robot (which is akin to a "magic trick") but also the (at the time) fantasy of becoming invisible, being able to do what you wanted to do without reprisal. Sure he was just beating folks at chess, but it's what he wanted to do.
The other thing is he gets to see everyones chess moves. Back then they kept them like secrets and wouldn't necessarily play just anyone with specific plays. This was back before engines could give best moves. The robot let him learn secrets to use against future opponents.
It toured the world for 90 years! I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a single person my guy😂
Some kings have a habit of killing any openent who beats them in game..... He was safe
This gives me major SCP-1875 vibes...
1. The chess robot had 0 humans
2. It was automatic
3. It was created by Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen
4. Even google knows it had 0 human inside
5. Google
Created by Hungarian inventor Wolfgang von Kempelen, the Mechanical Turk, a life sized human model, debuted in 1770 as the world's first autonomous chess robot.
Imagine that awkward moment when you f up the pieces when castling
*poo*
😂😂
"Can we restart? My Turk seems to have a mechanical problem."
He could see the king and rook because you can't move two pieces
@@tailz588 Because most people are idiots
*wins against him*
"AH SHIT!"
"Did that fucking robot just talk"
😂😂😂
"Its a very advanced robot"
"AH AMINA KOYİYİM" Would be more realistic as a truk😂
@@matheusm.santana6527 BHAHAA
Winning against this was probably a peak achievement
"This is incredible, a chess robot running on sunlight and electricity!"
"Snacks actually, it runs on snacks".
Not only were they secretly the best chess player, but also had a 90yr winning streak!
“We never figured out, here’s how the man inside did it…”
And even more interesting people working artificial intelligence and robotics technology to advance the society of 1700 😂
They never figured it out at the time i belive the creator (who was also the original chess master) passed it down to his son when he passed and he eventually revealed the blueprint that said how it worked
Funny how the presenter said everything as if it was "proven".
@stringisacrow5959 you're partly right. And it's funny how this original comment and the other replies are just idiots haha
If you're smart you'll know how to use the link
Fun fact - if an opponent made an illegal move, Turk swept all the pieces off the board
Imagine being a maid or servant in a French castle and Napoleon does an illegal move and this horrifying hexed wooden doll just yeets everything aside like a vengeful deity. Must’ve really spooked those poor people lol
Did you watch this video?
This happened to Napoleon
@@gnampwhat about his comment makes you think he didnt watch it
@@hellogoodbye1748 really?
For people wondering the person inside was Ben Franklin
I wasn't, but it's good to know. ;)
Capablanca?! Wow. This is the most ignorant comment ever 😂Dude lived about 150 years after the machine
This guy never coughed, sneezed or farted in 90 years... THAT'S WHAT'S IMPRESSIVE!!
When introverts go to extra measures to be social
this is the comment I was looking for 😂💕
Introverts being social with extra steps. 🤣
You guys are mistaking introversion with Social Anxiety…
@@HomeByTheSeas the two aren't mutually exclusive
@@quixotichippie Actually
introversion is a personality trait, not a diagnosable condition like social anxiety disorder. And perhaps most importantly, introversion does not interfere with day-to-day functioning or cause marked distress, whereas social anxiety absolutely does.
Okay but this is honnestly still incredible, this was the fucking 1700s
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you forgot 14 of them@@primalspace
Yeah they had all kinds of things in the 1700s. They built massive buildings
Indeed
Thanks to Europe's the industrial evolution.
Whoever beat that robot must have been absolutely goated
You know bro was giggling so hard under there
"No one EVER figured out how it worked."
"Here's how it worked." 😂
I'm assuming he was referring to the peeps back then
he said "ever" though @@TheLordOfBeans
No one figured it out until thr final owner revealed the secret of how it worked, so yes no one ever figured out how it worked back then.
@@NinjaTyler If no one "ever" figured it out, then we still wouldn't know. Nobody figured it out until he revealed it at his death. The joke is pointing out the contradiction between the two statements, not confusion over whether it was figured out or not.
@@Pehz63 Correct, but to be fair to @NinjaTyler, he was saying no one ever "figured it out." Meaning it had to be revealed by the owner, and it wasn't logically deduced by observation and/or investigation. It really comes down to semantics, which is why I chose not to engage.
But yes, it was a joke. I'm glad someone had a good enough sense of humor to point this out.
Earlier:beaten all of them
End:beaten ALMOST ALL
It didn't even beat the top player(s). Which isn't surprising because it was just controlled by another high end human player itself.
"facing the best chess players and beating them all"
"played thousands of games and won almost all of them"
Beating every player.
Won almost every game.
Every player / Most games
Y'all need to work on your English comprehension 😂
@@caryeverett8914 beating every player would insist it won every game.
@@JosueHernandez-nu5cp This works, right up until someone plays against the robot more than once. I’d imagine that back then, you’d have players lining up to play against this thing over and over again, much like how when arcades first opened people would replay the same games over and over again.
Your line of thinking only works if we assume that every single game involved a new player, with zero repetition. The moment you allow for repetition,the same player playing more than once, then you can in fact have beaten every single player, without having won every single game.
@@Tearlach you’re correct, but let’s not split hairs over something this insignificant.
That has to be so fricking uncomfortable my neck hurts just from imagining it.
It's impressive that the chess player can piece things together from such a weird angle
The lengths people would go to troll without Internet
You thinking the internet was the source origin of trolling.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Not at all. Reading comprehension?
@@tardwrangler I usually don't try to prove a point when the person is going to oppose anything I say regardless.
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar witch 🤡
I haven't heard this story in ages but I think there were at least two operators over the years. That's two men who chose to hide their identity full time just to troll the world. Respect
Yes, multiple chess masters over the years - some known and others unknown to this day!
Master of chess? Or master in the chest? You be the judge.
"Until he met Emory Tate. Perspicacity.".
So buddy was a faceless unbeatable grand master? Sounds right
Actually several people had operated the machine over the 80’s it was in use before being found out
@@El_Chico_des_Galos so then several people were unbeaten grand masters. Lol
@@Smokeytokey710yep. and the best thing is that they were all in on it. none of them snitched until this was discovered
"Ah, haha, we thought it was a robot but it was just a normal human master engineer and unbeatable chess master traveling around beating the masters around the world! 80 years? Ah, so it was just a whole group of unkown chess god engineers. Perfectly normal. That explains it. Nothing to see here."
@@nordicmind82 duh
Imagine the dude needed to sneeze 🤣🤣🤣
Haha I'm sure there must have been some close calls
Or fart
Or the candle extinguished
Plenty of people were in on the gimmick, and the owner refused to allow wagering so the authorities wouldn't stick their noses in the cabinet.
Awesome-o initializing fart sequence
Fam you telling me my guy never had to sneeze or fart in that box? Thats pure determination on his part, what a legend
The neck pain must've been just torture for him
"Things were better without cellphones."
People during times without cellphones:
Indeed things were better
So you're saying things were better
When you want to play chess in the 1700s but you have high social anxiety:😂
As someone from a time without cell phones, things were better!
Would you have learned this without your cellphone?
The magnus archives is a podcast-
I was just thinking it gave big Stranger vibes
@@florofern6470 well yea there’s a whole episode on the thing lmao
@@thatmoththoth I think I zoned out during that episode lol
@@florofern6470 I mean it is definitely one of the more mind boggling episodes. It’s mag 116 if your curious.
@@thatmoththoth ah thank you. I think I sort of remember it but I wasn't sure if I was thinking of the right thing. I'll make sure not to skip it on my relisten :)
Imagine the chess master forgot the machine and said checkmate loud in front of opponent from the box
"nobody ever figured out if it was real or not" *immediately tells us that it wasn't real*
Dude was so good he even beat players upside down and backwards
Without land a single hand!
bros comment got stolen by chicken
@@kogarwastaken not really, but very similar :(
Emperor: I want AI
Courtier: We have AI in our kingdom
AI in the kingdom
😂😂
the AI: e4 e5 -> ke2
Erm actually if it’s called turk it’s actually from the country Turkey
@@Shrek85627It's from Ottoman Empire. Turkey was founded in 1923.
@@Shrek85627first off your wrong because it’s not from Turkey it’s from Hungary
Guy chose to Dutch Oven himself with his farts just to be a giant troll and pass up on glory. What a legend 😂
Well ,the Turk refused to play with Napoleon when he made a move that the master in the box didn't know how to respond to.
Imagine sitting in there during a game and you need to pee.
“What’s that coming out of the box?”
@@Noobtastic247The fuel is leaking
@@DaDocDuck smelly salty fuel 😂😂😂
My friend told that it would be salty 😁
I think about this often 😂😂😂
Just don't drink water and your good
This is still impressive tbh. The amount of memory involved would be insane, and the precision of the mechanisms inside the puppet needed to be top-notch to ensure it can actually grab things
And the person inside stillbeat most chess masters it faced, which is very impressive in itself
@@alx_slav4068Well the one controlling the robot was a chess master and it wasnt just professional chess players who played but also other people and royalty
He has a chess board inside that he can replicate the moves on. There is no memory involved
no memory required, he has his own chessboard
@@marcello9476 he needs to have a good memory to remember which magnet is which
Where did the chess master had the courage to do this I respect him
You left out the most important thing: the Mechanical Turk was built by a Hungarian inventor, architect, poet and overall polyhistor, Kempelen Farkas. Other than the Turk, he built a mechanical human "mouth" that could speak if you blew air into it with bellows; he also built proto-steam turbines, aqueducts, typewriters for blind people and a ton of other things. Look him up, the guy was a real life steampunk/clockwork mastermind. I'm proud to share my Hungarian nationality with him.
This sounds epic for the time, talk about a mechanical marvel maker!
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Wow
@@flyingstonemon3564and even for today. 90% of people in the world right now couldn't do half of the things listed here
Thanks 🇭🇺♥️
This is incredibly impressive to me. Not only was the person kicking butt in chess, but they were doing it by reading the game board upside down and using only visual cues from that mechanism.
Typically chess players are hella smart and you’ve gotta have good visual imagination
they are replicating their opponents move on their own board so reading the board isnt that hard
@@theirishviking9278okay that makes it severely less difficult now 😂
They also had to live cramped up in a box for 90 years! 😮
Exactly
1700: chess Turk mechanism
2000: Turkish ice cream
He was a very old chess master hiding in the mashine for 90 years
The introverted version of the chess master.
When you wanna play chess against somebody but hate people.
Nowadays they use shrinking rays to cram people into increasingly more compact devices.
The fact that he remembered where every piece was during the game.
Brilliant!
Funfact: It was invented by Farkas Kempelen, a Hungarian inventor who had a really good relationship with the Habsburg family and queen Maria Theresa. When the whole Austrian court couldn't beat the robot, it went viral quickly in the whole of Europe 😂
Turk was #1 in trending on EuroTube
Ok but why was it a Turk
@@thesenate8268i suppose it could be because hungary was under ottoman rule in 17th century and the robot shown depicts the most common character that comes to mind when thought of ottomans and the ottoman empire is mostly associated with the turkish identity which is a bit false but it is what comes to mind.
@@Sillybilly614 Lmao yeah
@@thesenate8268 would it have changed anything if it was any other nationality
"The design is very human"
there is a hunan inside the design
@@ChickenMcKicken Very Human
Multiple chess masters taking turns in this thing makes it like The Stig from Top Gear
Chess master: plays chess & win
Chess Genius: makes chess robot and charges people to play chess for a living
Consider that this chessmaster was in a dark, stuffy, cramped box for upwards of hours, and still won constantly, is really impressive
Now I know where “Amazon mechanical Turk” comes from
I wonder if that still exists now that AI can do most menial online tasks
@@4.0.4 true, however it will still take awhile to reformat the infrastructure of mechanical Turk and AI before the AI alternatives becomes more economic for the businesses using Turk
@@4.0.4 Actually, it’s often used to collect data for training AI. Lots of AI development still needs large-scale data collection, and labeling images with humans or stuff like that can be better. It can also be used to gain statistics like how well humans vs. AI accomplish tasks like that.
Nowadays, people are also trying to use unlabeled datasets to train machine learning models (“transfer learning”), but you still need some labeled data at the end.
If you’ve ever done captchas that ask you to identify traffic lights or cars in an image, that’s also used for training data for self driving cars.
@@kirbylover5418 have never thought of this usage, but yeah, virtual sweatshops for AI training 🙃
Robot from Temu be like
1700:Robots use humans to cheat at chess
2020:Humans use robots to cheat at chess
Robot's intelligence didn't changed, at least.
Imagine how it smelled in that box
😂😂😂
Smells like big brain juice and pure dedication
Just make sure he won’t fart in there 😅
Probably like chess.
Depends. If the box was made out of cedar or another fragrant wood, then it would smell pretty good.
"Hey turk man why is there cigarette smoke coming from under your table?"
"uhh... The turk is having a malfunction, we're gona have to postone the match" - probably the ppl carying the thing around
@@alexletiny5155 the turk detected an Armenian
That's not smoke, that's steam. Steam from the steamed clams we're having.
Actually, the original Turk (which was destroyed in a fire if memory serves) smoked a pipe - in reality, serving as a chimney to keep the smoke from the candles away from the operator and so that they could see
Robots where invented in 1800:
People in 1799:
Even if the chess skils were fake, lets agree that in terms of mechanical precision, that hand was awsome!
Imagine someone raged and threw the chessboard 💀
That happened one time and you’ll never guess who the Turk was playing when it did…..
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon, not knowing the secret but wanting to have fun with the “robot” attempted to play white, which only the Turk could play. After the Turk tried to reset the pieces when Napoleon played them, he (the robot) swiped them all off the board in annoyance. Apparently Napoleon thought it was hilarious, then played a real game, where he lost in about five minutes
Napoleon did seem like a hot head in Bill and Ted.
@@TheDeadman419
The Chess Trololo did not like that move.
Napolien used Laugh. It wasn't effective, but still made a better story than most movies in the 2020's.
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES IS A PODCAST
The chess master being cooked by a grandmaster:
Honest with so many debuffs that chess master is insanely good
that chess master could be a vampire to keep himself alive in that box for 90 years..
The master lived for 130 years.
The chessmasters who secretly operated it included Johann Allgaier, Boncourt, Aaron Alexandre, William Lewis, Jacques Mouret, and William Schlumberger, but the operators within the mechanism during Kempelen's original tour remain unknown.
Wikipedia!
@@ernstlindemann2376 my response was a joke, but thank you for those who would have believed my comment. 😂
@@NBT_DataNo one believed your comment, you muppet
Thank you! 🙌@@ernstlindemann2376
lol@@NBT_Data
this is an example of a human trying to be a robot and a robot trying to be a human
Single Turk even a robot one was scary enough for its opponents. I miss those days.
The robot is genius❌
The human in the box is genius✅
That wiggling magnet detail is extremely clever.
Imagine missing a play, or better yet, falling asleep!🤣