 | Oxford graduate - Automaton chess players - 1819 - 36 pages
...completed to admit of the mistake being rectified. At the commencement of a game, the Automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board; the same motion...it towards the square of the piece to be moved. Its hand and fingers open on touching the piece, which it takes up, and conveys to any proposed square.... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1819 - 444 pages
...completed to admit of the mistake being rectified. At the Commencement of a game, the automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board; the same motion...towards the square of the -piece to be moved. Its hand and fingers open on touching the piece, which it takes up, and conveys to any proposed square.... | |
 | 1819 - 808 pages
...completed to admit of the mistake being rectified. At the commencement of a game, the Automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board ; the same...it towards the square of the piece to be moved. Its hand and ringers open on touching the piece, which it takes up, and conveys to any proposed square.... | |
 | England - 1819 - 782 pages
...completed to admit of the mistake being rectified. At the commencement of a game, the Automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board ; the same...placed under it, and directs it towards the square of tin- piece to be moved. Its hand and 6ngers open on touching the piece, which it take* up, and conveys... | |
 | England - 1819 - 792 pages
...completed to admit of the mistake being rectified. At the commencement of a game, the Automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board ; the same...slowly raises its left arm from the cushion placed tinder it, and directs it towards the square of the piece to be moved. Its hand and fingers open on... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 754 pages
...completed to admit of the mistake being rectified. At the commencement of a game, the Automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board ; the same...at the close of a game. In making a move it slowly rises its left arm from the cushion placed under it, and directs it towards the Bquu« square of the... | |
 | Alexander Jamleson - 1821 - 456 pages
...completed to admit of the mistake being rectified. At the commencement of a game, the automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board; the same motion...it towards the square of the piece to be moved. Its hand and fingers open on touching the piece, which it takes up, and conveys to uny proposed square.... | |
 | 1821 - 772 pages
...individual present to play a game of chess." " At the commencement of a game, the automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board ; the same...arm from the cushion placed under it, and directs it toward the square of the piece to be moved. Its hands and fingers open on touching the piece, which... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1821 - 764 pages
...individual present to play a game of chess." " At the commencement of a game, the automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board ; the same...arm from the cushion placed under it, and directs it toward the square of the piece to be moved. Its hands and fingers open on touching the piece, which... | |
 | 1821 - 770 pages
...individual present to play a game of chess." " At the commencement of a game, the automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board ; the same...arm from the cushion placed under it, and directs it toward the square of the piece to be moved. Its hands and fingers open on touching the piece, which... | |
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At the commencement of a game, the automaton moves its head, as if taking a view of the board ; the same motion occurs at the close of a game. In making a move, it slowly raises its left arm from the cushion placed under it, and directs it towards the... 
