William Schlumberger

William Schlumberger

William Schlumberger (1800 in Mulhouse – April 1838 in Havana) was a European chess master. He is known to have taught
Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint-Amant to play chess and as the operator of The Turk, a chess-playing machine which purported to be an automaton. It was Bavarian musician and showman Johann Nepomuk Mälzel who hired him to operate The Turk. Schlumberger acted as the Turk's director in Europe and in the United States until his death from yellow fever in 1838.

References

* Tom Standage, "The Turk: The Life and Times of the Famous Eighteenth-Century Chess-Playing Machine". Walker and Company, New York City, 2002. ISBN 0802713912
* Gerald M. Levitt, "The Turk, Chess Automaton". McFarland and Company Inc. Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2000.
* [http://www.chess.com/chessopedia/view/schlumberger-william William Schlumberger at chess.com]
* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,915063,00.html The man in the automaton at time.com]
* citation
last=Gaige | first=Jeremy | author-link=Jeremy Gaige
year=1987 | title=Chess Personalia, A Biobibliography
publisher=McFarland
isbn=0-7864-2353-6
page=377


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