Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Chess Game Patent

Robot Computer Chess Game

Filed January 5th, 1981

The rather highfalutin’ text for this patent mentions Baron Von Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk of 1769 as an ancestor of this robotic chess player. I suspect you won’t be startled to learn that the games produced based on this design had an alarmingly high failure rate.

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