Editing Computer chess (section)

=== Pre-computer age ===
[[File:Ajedrecista primero1.JPG|thumb|[[El Ajedrecista]]]]
The idea of creating a chess-playing machine dates back to the eighteenth century.  Around 1769, the chess playing [[automaton]] called [[Mechanical Turk|The Turk]], created by [[Kingdom of Hungary|Hungarian]] inventor [[Wolfgang von Kempelen|Farkas Kempelen]], became famous before being exposed as a hoax. Before the development of [[digital computing]], serious trials based on automata such as [[El Ajedrecista]] of 1912, built by Spanish engineer [[Leonardo Torres Quevedo]], which played a king and rook versus king ending, were too complex and limited to be useful for playing full games of chess. The field of mechanical chess research languished until the advent of the digital computer in the 1950s.