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
@@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.
How in the world was he able to beat them despite the awkward, uncomfortable position, heat, and trapped CO2 down there. The master chess player is truly a legend.
Well, that thing probably wasn't going to chess tournaments, but rather playing wealthy nobles who were unlikely to be some kind of grandmaster, but rather just looking to be entertained.
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
As a Turk/Turkish, It's actually quite interesting to watch. Imagine you think you are the best until you get defeated by a robot dressed as an Ottoman
@@SpringtrapIoo armanians were ottoman citizens....the turks are actually etnicly biased ungodly nationalist Ataturk worshippers...the reason there was tension between these 2 countries were because armanians were christians and they committed sins because according to them jesus died for their sins so they had free to sin cards...backbiting the turks and spying them even buthcering turks was very common they could easily infiltrate the turkish people because they look the same also the same culture and language...anyway today both countries are liberal countries and both left god and accepting to be slaves of the system instead of god....but you as a zionist should know the historu because your people were there to and never left both countries.
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
... 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.
@@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
@@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.
The least introverted chess master I don’t know why people were trying to correct me when I was speaking most introverted from experience but here you go. Hope you’re happy.
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
@@sheogorathprinceofmadness2223 it was simpler times. the person inside moves forward. they open first compartment. to show all the way through the machine. they close it and the person slides back. they open the next compartment and it convinces the people that no one could possibly be inside. search the subject on UA-cam and find a longer video. there are a number of vids that go very in depth about the mechanism.
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.
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.
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
@@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.
@@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.
"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.
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
"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."
@@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.
@@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 :)
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
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
The thing I love most about this story is all the different aspects that had to work in tandem perfectly for the illusion to succeed. Also something I haven’t seen anyone mention is the fact the hidden chess player had to be insanely quiet. Couldn’t make a peep, couldn’t sneeze cough or fart. Had to play super quiet and hold their pee.
@@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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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
Unsurprisingly it lost against most of the best chess players. It was a novelty that was primarily used against famous people and rich people. Although it also made money from the public via admission prices as well.
The mechanism of the figure and the way the master had to be at the top of his chess game while simultaneously interpreting and memorizing the screws that came down is wild.
What's wild is that people 200 hundred years after believe a fake story like XVIII century peasants... the dude who made the fake news was called Wolfgang von Kempelen
Where are you people getting that the person inside has to memorize the moves? Did you even watch the video? They have their own chessboard in front of them, replicating the game going on above them. It isn't that hard.
Y'know, If you ever watched doctor who (more specific the seasons featuring the 11th doctor) the you'd have seen that, into one of the episodes, the group ventures a idealized future were Cyborgs (a somewhat fictional race composed of assimilated humans and aliens into a web of metalic beings unable to feel emotions) were almost instinct, where they see a salvaged Cyborg carcass that is able to play and win chess games even without robot/humanoid mechanisms to make itself operate normaly, the trick on that scene is the exact same operated by the Turk, but the Cyborg carcass was controles via a remote control that the guy inside the tablet used.
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.
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.
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)
@@Diablange95...
...
IN THE 1700S???
How in the world was he able to beat them despite the awkward, uncomfortable position, heat, and trapped CO2 down there. The master chess player is truly a legend.
Assumption Assumption
There'd be discreet vents for the CO2.
Kempelen Farkas Hungary
Olvassatok utána! Hitetlenek!
Well, that thing probably wasn't going to chess tournaments, but rather playing wealthy nobles who were unlikely to be some kind of grandmaster, but rather just looking to be entertained.
1700: Robots use humans to cheat at chess.
2020: Humans use robots to cheat at chess.
😂😂
2024*
@@DieGamerKatze Don't need to be that accurate, bruh
@@DieGamerKatzeThe thing is online chess game is booming in popularity in 2020 because of covid
give it another few centuries and itll loop back around
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
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
As a Turk/Turkish, It's actually quite interesting to watch. Imagine you think you are the best until you get defeated by a robot dressed as an Ottoman
Do u hate armenians.
@@SpringtrapIoo yeah buddy we are vampires and we only drink armenian blood(!) What do you think amk we are just like you.
@@SpringtrapIoo i mean we dont hate anybody
@@SpringtrapIoo armanians were ottoman citizens....the turks are actually etnicly biased ungodly nationalist Ataturk worshippers...the reason there was tension between these 2 countries were because armanians were christians and they committed sins because according to them jesus died for their sins so they had free to sin cards...backbiting the turks and spying them even buthcering turks was very common they could easily infiltrate the turkish people because they look the same also the same culture and language...anyway today both countries are liberal countries and both left god and accepting to be slaves of the system instead of god....but you as a zionist should know the historu because your people were there to and never left both countries.
@@SpringtrapIooNah but Armenians does
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
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
That chess master had some serious skills, beating players upside down and backwards.
Beyond impressive!
why are you everywhere
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
Technically it'd look exactly the same from below, only difference being that "Black" would play first.
"won ALMOST all of them" those few people who beat it must have gone home with pride
They got put in the machine
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
@InsertYTHandleHereit's all subpar documentaries can talk about
“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
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
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
The least introverted chess master
I don’t know why people were trying to correct me when I was speaking most introverted from experience but here you go. Hope you’re happy.
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.
least*
Truely an accomplishment
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 💀
Bro's the real *Magnus Carlsen* 🗿🍷
Edit: Guys, Like for Primal Space, he is the chosen one. Subscribe for Primal Space🗿🍷
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 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
I bet you wear wig for chess robot 💅💃
@@krisstopher8259what is stopping you from using that keyboard you just used to type your comment, to type up a Google search
Cool I guess. How does that even work?
@@sheogorathprinceofmadness2223 it was simpler times.
the person inside moves forward. they open first compartment. to show all the way through the machine. they close it and the person slides back. they open the next compartment and it convinces the people that no one could possibly be inside.
search the subject on UA-cam and find a longer video. there are a number of vids that go very in depth about the mechanism.
“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.
And I thought I am Introvert 😂😂😂
😂😂😂
I’m more impressed by the chess master’s ability to sit quietly in an uncomfortable position for great lengths of time
Ikr? 😹 One loud fart, burp, sneeze, yawn, and the jig would be up
Yes. Why would he even do that😐
@@Infinitymc1mumaybe people payed to use the turk so he would also make some money
@@Insider_Facts Damn--I didn't think that..!
@@Infinitymc1mu it was probably his job
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
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
Bro stayed in there for 300+ years💀.
*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
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
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 🤣🤣😂😂
Every one is talking about the master but no one is talking about the engineering mind of the man who made that .
For even more information and context, be sure to check out the full length video on my channel.
“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
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.
he had the chance to go down in the history books and chose to troll everyone
i guess he still went in the history books this way
But*
@@Speed-TVand works as well not just but
@@JANONY0 technically
Well yeah but there wasn't only good person who played the turk. Other grandmasters used it too when it was brought to the usa
if you said won almost all of them.. That means there were few people managing to beat it.
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.
😂😂😂
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.
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?
This is the 20th century equivalent of amazon running an "ai store" with 1000 indians watching cameras and charging all the customers
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
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 🤡
"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.
The fact it people were playing against a "robot" probably helped cuz the oddity would distract them a bit
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
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 if the chess master either needed to cough, sneeze or fart 💀
haha you know there were at least a few close calls.
"check mate"
They could have blamed it on the Turk.
Blame the other guy
They also traveled with a "pull my finger" booth right next to him at all times to cover for him.
Thats probably magnus carlsen traveling back in time
"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?
Okay but this is honnestly still incredible, this was the fucking 1700s
💯💯💯
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.
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!
Okay but the for 1700's a controllable mechanical arm thats accurate and functional is actually impressive
Dude was so good he even beat players upside down and backwards
Without land a single hand!
bros comment got stolen by chicken
@@kogar.o not really, but very similar :(
When you wanna play chess against somebody but hate people.
The introverted version of the chess master.
Finally Hikaru found a worthy opponent 💀
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
@@Mr82828coneIt's from Ottoman Empire. Turkey was founded in 1923.
@@Mr82828conefirst off your wrong because it’s not from Turkey it’s from Hungary
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
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
The thing I love most about this story is all the different aspects that had to work in tandem perfectly for the illusion to succeed.
Also something I haven’t seen anyone mention is the fact the hidden chess player had to be insanely quiet. Couldn’t make a peep, couldn’t sneeze cough or fart. Had to play super quiet and hold their pee.
"The design is very human"
there is a hunan inside the design
@@ChickenMcKicken Very Human
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
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!
❤🇹🇷
Wow
@@flyingstonemon3564and even for today. 90% of people in the world right now couldn't do half of the things listed here
Thanks 🇭🇺♥️
for a moment I thought aliens were exist in 1700 and brought their technology to earth 💀 until I saw the man under the table
Conspiracy theory mindset:
Cool tech = THE ALIENS, THEY- THEY BROUGHT THE TECHNOOOLOGYYY MANNN
Man was like "regular chess is boring, I prefer this.". LMAO
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.
@@SomeRandomGuy8368 Lmao yeah
@@thesenate8268 would it have changed anything if it was any other nationality
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.
Imagine if someone messed with their own chess pieces without being seen so that the magnets don't work. Dude would be so lost lol
🤣🤣🤣 that would be tragic
bro was playing something that was more complicated and still won against everyone.
I wanted to say the same and searched for this comment
But one thing to add-
He can be more focused on the game as there will be less distraction
true
Me playing pc fps tank game with a controller
Almost. ☝️
Not everyone
The chess master's trolling skills were next level. The original chess master was a true genius.
Peely!
He had to hide to avoid anger, or there was a bounty on him.
Bot
Wth almost 90 years hella old fragile man inside that body
bot
As long as the guy inside doesn’t sneeze or fart, he’s golden. 👍🏽
Haha you just know there were some close calls!
He peed man.
What I find crazy is that the brain power required is insane. Like man has to figure out the location of every chess piece from some magnets
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
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.
that chess master could be a vampire to keep himself alive in that box for 90 years..
Random fact: If the person that is playing with the Turk tries to cheat, the Turk will just drop all of the pieces
Consider that this chessmaster was in a dark, stuffy, cramped box for upwards of hours, and still won constantly, is really impressive
really nice explanation put into 1 minute, cool!
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it.
Ya this is a really neat video! Thanks for the information.
Dispenser here
Dispenser here
@@WhyAreYouLookingHereDude X + 8 "No!"
Magnus time travelled those years
Goddamn stranger
found you
Bro this is what we all thought as a kid someone inside an atm or vending mashine giving it😂😂
So that's where the idea for the Cyberman chess bot in Doctor Who came from.
was looking for this
Time to bring out the gold foil
I was thinking the exact same thing lol
Magnus Archives: Ah yes, perfect for horror
Every time I see this I immediately think of The Magnus Archives
"nobody knew how it worked" other than everyone involved in making it
That wiggling magnet detail is extremely clever.
Imagine missing a play, or better yet, falling asleep!🤣
Man, there’s being an introvert and there’s this!
Bro made a chess Arkinator 💀
- This is *str8 up genius !* Especially in the 1700s to be that successful && trick so many is *WILD AF !!* 😮🙃
The magnus archives.
Welp time to start the unknowing :3
Came to the comments to find my people
@@madmakoe101 saaame
exactly what i thought about when i saw this
Ah, my people
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES IS A PODCAST
"Undefeated".....
"Won almost all it's games"
Thought I'm the only one who heard it
It's probably a chatgpt generated script
You realize that chess games can be a draw, right? "Undefeated" means "never lost a game", which means that all games were either a victory or a draw.
@@leandroteles7857 Click bait exposed
Beat every player .vs. won almost all games. Imagine people playing chess twice... How stupid, amirite?
But the fact that he beat all of them is impressive
"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 programmed to smoke.
Damn i really need to relisten to the Magnus archives
Why? What is it? How does it relate to this?
@@ReptillianStrike The Magnus Archives is a horror anthology podcast. the Turk is a bit of a plot point towards the end of season 3.
@@ReptillianStrike late in the third season of the magnus archives, there's an episode dedicated to it.
AI in 1700s: I'm played by human
AI in 2024: Human are played by me
Now we know that trolling from the 1700's used to be legendary.
"unbeatable chess bot"
"Won almost everymatch"
So its beatable then.
Unsurprisingly it lost against most of the best chess players. It was a novelty that was primarily used against famous people and rich people. Although it also made money from the public via admission prices as well.
"basicly unbeaten"
You know bro was giggling so hard under there
The mechanism of the figure and the way the master had to be at the top of his chess game while simultaneously interpreting and memorizing the screws that came down is wild.
What's wild is that people 200 hundred years after believe a fake story like XVIII century peasants... the dude who made the fake news was called Wolfgang von Kempelen
Where are you people getting that the person inside has to memorize the moves? Did you even watch the video? They have their own chessboard in front of them, replicating the game going on above them. It isn't that hard.
I wonder if the guy inside ever sneezed during the match? 😹
🤣🤣 you just know there were more than a few close calls.
despite it not being an actual robot, its still very futuristuc in its age because of its actual mecanism
Y'know, If you ever watched doctor who (more specific the seasons featuring the 11th doctor) the you'd have seen that, into one of the episodes, the group ventures a idealized future were Cyborgs (a somewhat fictional race composed of assimilated humans and aliens into a web of metalic beings unable to feel emotions) were almost instinct, where they see a salvaged Cyborg carcass that is able to play and win chess games even without robot/humanoid mechanisms to make itself operate normaly, the trick on that scene is the exact same operated by the Turk, but the Cyborg carcass was controles via a remote control that the guy inside the tablet used.