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Highly debateable but Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen made a chess playing automaton in 1769 (actually a hoax as a man was squeezed into the automaton.) ‘It was Newell and Simon who invented the first chess-playing computer programme.’ http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Explaining.Mind97/0178.html
