The Chess Machine - Hardcover

Lohr, Robert

 
9781594201264: The Chess Machine

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In the aftermath of the "creation" of an automated chess-playing machine that is secretly operated from within by an outcast Italian dwarf, Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen dazzles the public throughout the course of a sensational tour, until the mysterious death of a seductive countess places the machine under suspicion.

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Robert Lšhr was born in Berlin and grew up there and in Bremen and Santa Barbara, California. He trained as a journalist at the Berlin School of Journalism, then worked for Sat. 1 news and for the Berlin daily paper Der Tagesspiegel, Berliner Zeitung, Neue Zeit, and Taz, and finally as a correspondent for The Washington Post. After many years writing screenplays, musicals, plays, and short stories, Lšhr decided to try his hand at a novel. The Chess Machine is his first.

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