The Secrets of the Chess Machine
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In Vienna 1770, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils a strange invention, The Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton. The crowds adore the Turk, and the success of Baron von Kempelen seems assured. But, when a beautiful Countess dies under mysterious circumstances in the presence of the automaton, the Turk falls under a cloud of suspicion.
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