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1927
The Chess Player is a 1927 French silent film directed by Raymond Bernard and based on a novel by Henry Dupuy-Mazuel. It is a historical drama set in the late 18th century during the Russian domination of Polish Lithuania, and elements of the plot are drawn from the story of the chess-playing automaton known as The Turk.
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The Turk, famous 18th-century human-like chess-playing machine, was either the brilliant piece of engineering centuries ahead of its time or (more likely) one of the most successful hoaxes in history. In any case, The Turk inspired many works of fiction, including *The Chess Player*, 1926 novel by French writer Henri Dupuy-Mazuel, which was in 1927 adapted into eponymous film directed by Raymond Bernard, which is no…More
