One On One

December, 1983

Back in 1784, a chess-playing automaton named The Turk had Paris and London all agog as it defeated beginners and masters with equal aplomb. Its secret, of course, was that its flowing robes actually housed a human (some say a very smart midget). It's no secret that Milton Bradley's Grand-Master houses an advanced chess computer with 12 levels of skill. But what distinguishes it from other electronic chess games is that your invisible opponent's pieces move by themselves, just as though you were...