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The Automaton Chess Player was first introduced into England by Mr. de Kempelen, its inventer, about the year 1783. It was brought again into this country two years ago, and exhibited under the direction of a very ingenious gentleman, Mr. Maelzel. The annexed drawings, (plate 1, figs. 1 and 2,) represent the general appearance of the machine. It runs on castors, and is either seen on the floor when the doors of the apartment are thrown open, or is wheeled into the room at the commencement of the

The Knight’s move over the chess board has engaged the attention of so many scientific men, that I cannot doubt that a collection of different solutions of the problem will prove acceptable to all admirers of chess. The Knight’s path is of two kinds—terminable and interminable—it is interminable, whenever the last, or concluding, move of a series be made on a square, which lies within the Knight’s reach of that from which he originally set out—and terminable in every other instance. Euler publis

Contained in Plates 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , and 10 . Methods of performing the Move on Parallelograms less than the whole Board. Terminable Routes over the whole Board. Interminable Routes over the whole Board. Howlett and Brimmer , Printers, 10, Frith Street, Soho....