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Summer challenge ``el ajedrecista''

1 2021-07-21 00:21

El Ajedrecista (English: The Chess Player) is an automaton built in 1912 by Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, one of the first autonomous machines capable of playing chess. As opposed to the human-operated The Turk and Ajeeb, El Ajedrecista was a true automaton built to play chess without human guidance. It played an endgame with three chess pieces, automatically moving a white king and a rook to checkmate the black king moved by a human opponent.

The device could be considered the first computer game in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ajedrecista

Leonard Torres build a machine able to play a K+R vs K endgame long before the transistor was invented. Can you build the same machine with your battery-included programming language? Bonus point if your program is able to deliver mate in the theoretical mimimum number of moves.

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