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Up until the 20th century, there were only a handful of factors that
propelled chess kicking and screaming into the mainstream and popularized it
with the general population. Philidor's blindfold exhibitions and, to a
lesser degree, von Kempelen's automaton gave people something to watch in
the 18th century, while Maezel's reincarnation of the automaton as the Turk
played an extremely important role in chess in the early 19th century,
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