what's up with the new bot "the mechanical turk"?


For some reason, when defeating it, it says that you're stronger than Alekhine which doesn't make sense as the machine was destroyed in 1854 and Alekhine was born in 1892. Just pointing out something that I thought of

I don't think it's supposed to be a literal 'guess who was inside the actual mechanical Turk', so the dates of the original machine are not relevant. It mentions winning many tournaments including Hastings, as well as playing Lasker (I think?) as well as considering Alekhine strong. It recommends studying endgames to get better, and also played the Birds opening against me once, so my guess is that it's Capablanca. It also said we'll find out on 15th June so only 2 weeks to wait to see if I'm right!

It's quite possible that it's Capablanca, because when playing with the new bot Isabel, she says that the mechanical turk speaks Spanish.

It also said I lasted longer than Edgard Colle. So who has played Colle, Alekhine, Marshall and maybe Lasker? Capa seems to be the top choice, expecially if the Spanish part fit in. I hadn't see that or Lasker mention, I had Lasker in my list of candidates and maybe Reshevsky (who was a small person that could fit), Reti, Rubinstein

Somebody said that will it reveal its elo on 15, I think no, I think it is the percentage of how many games the community wins against it, as it shows the same world type of logo as it showed for the may month bots (scanner, fighter, pincer and crusher)

Still it's funny cause it's the first chess bot who was a scam cause that was a human playing the moves, but now it's a chess bot who play like a human disguised as a bot
So it still a scam cause you expect a human but it's a bot

Looking at winners of Hastings Capa is the only one that looks like a native Spanish speaker. Reshevsky is of that era and Rubinstein is another top-caliber player who I could imagine being small in stature. Euwe of course beat Alekhine and won Hastings; Flohr, Maroczy, Tartakower are on the list but not Bogoljubow who lost a few matches to Alekhine