Maelzel's Chess-Player.

'''Poe, Edgar Allan. "Maelzel's Chess-Player."''' 1836. In The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. New York: Modern Library, 1938.

Detective story in which the chess-playing machine turns out to be a hoax; the narrator's method in exposing the hoax plays on some essential attributes of automatons. Discussed by Warrick 39-40.[]