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that early in Edgar Allen Poe s writing career, he published an essay exposing a fake chess-playing automaton that was actually operated by a chess master hidden inside. The essay employs a method of deduction called ratiocination which is used by C. Auguste Dupin, Poe s fictional detective.

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Fun Fact: that early in Edgar Allen Poe’s writing career, he published an essay exposing a fake chess-playing automaton that was actually operated by a chess master hidden inside. The essay employs a method of deduction called ‘ratiocination’ which is used by C. Auguste Dupin, Poe’s fictional detective.

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