General Terms
What is a automaton in chess?
- Concept
- Vocabulary
- Chess
Automaton is a chess vocabulary term: an automaton is a self-operating machine. In chess, it refers to chess-playing machines that were in fact hoaxes and under the control of hidden human players. Automatons stirred up great interest in the 18th and 19th centuries and inspired early thoughts of the possibility of artificial intelligence. Use it as vocabulary, but always ask what it changes about the position or the game situation.
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