Maelzel's Chess Player

essay by Edgar Allan Poe, exposing the chess automaton "The Turk" as fraudulent
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Maelzel's Chess Player

Summary

Maelzel's Chess Player is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Maelzel's Chess Player authored Edgar Allan Poe[3].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's genre is recorded as essay[5].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's language of work or name is recorded as American English[6].
  • +1836-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Maelzel's Chess Player[7].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/027k2f9[8].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's has edition or translation is recorded as Q51637664[9].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's main subject is recorded as The Turk[10].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's first line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Perhaps no exhibition of the kind has ever elicited so general attention as the Chess-Player of Maelzel.'}[11].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's last line is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'We do not believe that any reasonable objections can be urged against this solution of the Automaton Chess-Player.'}[12].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's copyright status is recorded as public domain[13].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's NooSFere story ID is recorded as 39052[14].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's FantLab work ID is recorded as 8800[15].
  • Maelzel's Chess Player's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 3374995[16].

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Works and Contributions

Maelzel's Chess Player authored Edgar Allan Poe[3].

Why It Matters

Maelzel's Chess Player ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (43 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_maelzel-s-chess-player_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Maelzel's Chess Player}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/maelzel-s-chess-player}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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