Article in the Sunday Times Culture Magazine on Sunday 8th August. Book review of Tom Standage's latest release.Gerard Killoran wrote: ↑Sun Jun 07, 2020 1:57 amThe book is available hereTim Harding wrote: ↑Sat Jun 06, 2020 2:23 pmI don't know the Standage book but you should look at the earlier history, published by McFarland in 2000: "The Turk, Chess Automaton" by Gerald M. Levitt.
It includes all the 50 known games played in London in 1820 when Mouret operated it. They were published in a book at the time which used to be free on Google Books but it's no longer available as a PDF download.
The game with Napoleon is on page 41 of Levitt's book. Napoleon was White and opened 1 e4 e5 2 Qf3. He was mated on move 24.
Levitt also mentions the Franklin game but the moves were apparently not preserved.
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It mentions that Tom Standage is a science and technology journalist.
His latest book is titled:
"A Brief History Of Motion "
"From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next"
Bloomsbury £20 pp272