Thor W. Kristensen
The Chess Machine
Thor W. Kristensen
GAN Aschehoug
The Chess Machine
GAN Aschehoug
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Do you play chess? Can you beat the computer?
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250 years ago, there were no computers. But one day, a man built a chess machine.
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The machine looked like a man. He was sitting behind a big desk.
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He moved the pieces with his left hand.
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He beat many famous people, even Napoleon.
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Nobody understood how this was possible.
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Many years later they found out.
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There was a man hidden inside the machine. And he was a good chess player!
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