How A Robot Scammed The World For 100 Years

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[XxZarionxX]

Crazy that they used to put humans into the bottoms of machines to cheat against top players then, and now they put machines into the bottoms of humans instead.

[digiscream]

Fun fact: when Edgar Allen Poe wrote about the Turk, he stated that a chess-playing automaton must always win. Dude was about 200 years ahead of his time, but he was right in the end.

[AlexDings]

1:34 Napoleon was ahead of his time, foreseeing the way our overlord ChatGPT would reinvent the game of chess

[stopmakingeyesatme]

Here's a funny coincidence: John Cochrane, the guy who keeps pushing his pawns in an ultra-classical way, actually unintentionally foreshadowed the whole hypermodern thing. He lived in India and played a bunch of games with Indian players who didn't necessarily believe in occupying the centre with pawns. His games with a guy named Moheschunder Bannerjee are some of the first recorded games that feature hypermodern play, including the first ever recorded Grunfeld Defense (obviously long before it was called that).

[sapiensoutpost]

Fun fact: the opening 1. e4 e5 2. Qf3 is called the Napoleon Attack.

[davidmendez]

No AI will ever top the beautiful games we get to enjoy in GTE

[Rdebo_]

levy is slowly on his transformation into a chess newsletter rather than a chess player.

[captainredbeard]

Fun fact: Because of this "robot", in the German language the expression "something is turked (getürkt)" still exists today for something that is faked.

[schizoidforjesus]

"fake human"
>looks inside
>real human

[DjVortex-w]

The first actual "chess computer" was a purely mechanical device that had a board with just a KR vs K setup, where the mechanism would move the king and the rook to always checkmate the other king. It always made the same mechanical moves in each possible position, but technically speaking it was the kind of first ever genuine "chess computer", even if a completely mechanical one.

Of course it took the advent of actual electronic computers before an actual chess computer using all pieces was possible.

[pappaflammyboi]

Well, technically, the Turk wasn't cheating... it was just lying about the wizard behind the "curtain."

[srinidhikabra]

I love how Levy just casually roasts Napolean lmao

[niklasschrimpf]

Fun fact: in german exists the word "getürkt" to describe things that should be fair (like a dice) but actually are disadvantageous towards you (like a dice with a tendency for one side). It is believed the word originates from the turk, but also other theories exist.

[MistaOppritunity]

What confuses me is that the bot was damned near undefeated against people who were presumably good players. You would think that a regular old guy just playing chess would lose occasionally, no matter how strong they are. It's not like Paul Morphy was in the box... I think.

[_Sporkz_]

1800s: Checking the "AI's Box" for a human
2020s: Checking the Human prison pocket for an AI

[Musementhzoj]

DougDoug predicted the future of Gotham videos by having an entire video where Napoleon Bonaparte could cheat

[CucuChessNerd]

It has been scientifically proven that Levy is also an AI.

[ellispiper]

These histrocial chess videos are some of my favorite of the whole channel. Would love a series of interesting/intense/funny chess matches or incidents

[bgturtle]

The funniest part is a century later the son of the owner confessed that the Turk was just a chess master hidden in a box.

[mikmikification]

Hey Levy so glad to see these chess history videos again! They're my favorite videos of yours to rewatch, and I look forward to more.