July 17, 2008 -- Endgame
And that's the game! Poor Cobenzl, beaten by a machine. He's only the first of thousands, to be sure.
For reference, here's the game I used, listed at Chessgames.com. I altered it a little bit because of the forfeited move -- it was tricky and I had to replay it about ten times to get the pacing back on track, and I also had a friend and regular chessplayer check it out for me.
And just for fun, here's a link to excerpts from a translation of Karl Gottlieb von Windisch's book about the automaton, Inanimate Reason; or a Circumstantial Account of That Astonishing Piece of Mechanism, M. de Kempelen's Chess-Player."
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