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On the way from Vienna to Paris with his family Wolfgang von Kempelen stopped in Neuchâtel, where on 11 March 1783, at the inn on the marketplace, he presented his legendary chess machine, an android in Turkish robes that could play chess.
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Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs):
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royal chamber, red crab, royal councillor, chess cabinet, chess automaton, chess machine, white chessmen, speaking machine
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Wolfgang von Kempelen, Anna Maria, Maria Theresia, Friedrich Knaus, Baroness Jesenák, Mechanical Turk, Mother of God, Golden Rose, Ibolya Jesenák, Duke Albert, Baron Andrássy, Herr Neumann, Court Mechanician, Big Man, Virgin Mary, Nepomuk von Kempelen, Palais Grassalkovich, Spirit of Proportion, Pressburger Zeitung, Gottfried Neumann, Spirit of Magnetism, Castle Mount, Herr von Kempelen, Pressburg Castle, Purity Lodge
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