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Egypt, Shredder, etc. are boards with imaginatively sculptured pieces, for instance
ancient Egyptian figures perched on the top of a pyramid.
Mia, Turk – these are new and very ambitious simulations of a futuristic
Metropolis-like robot or the famous Chess Turk built in the 18th century by the
Hungarian engineer Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen.
The Turk was a very famous chess-playing automaton, which was constructed in 1769
by Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734-1804) to entertain the Austrian Empress Maria
Theresa. It was built in the form of a maplewood cabinet, 4 feet long by 2 feet deep
and 3 feet high, with a figure dressed in a cloak and turban seated behind it. The
cabinet doors could be opened to reveal internal clockwork mechanisms, and appeared
to have no place in which to conceal a human player. But still the machine was able to
play a strong game of chess against any opponents (even Napoleon tried his hand
against it).

Contemporary copper engraving of von Kempelen's Turk
The point of the illusion was that a chess player was actually able to conceal himself
very cleverly during the inspection of the machine, and then operate the Turk with the
help of levers during the game.

2.9

3D board – Material
3D Se t t ings

Boa rd, Pie c e s

Here you can set different materials for the pieces and the board. You can also set
the resolution for the textures, making sure that your graphics card is able to handle
the complexity of the 3D graphics.

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