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ajeeb

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1. Ajeeb

   Ajeeb was a chess-playing "automaton", created by Charles Hooper (a cabinet maker), first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868. A particularly intriguing piece of faux mechanical technology (while presented as entirely automated, it in fact concealed a strong human chess player inside), it drew scores of thousands of spectators to its games, the opponents for which included Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and O. Henry. Ajeeb's name was derived from the Arabic word عجيب (ʿajīb) meaning "wonderful, marvelous." The genius behind the device were players such as Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1898–1904), Albert Beauregard Hodges, Constant Ferdinand Burille, Charles Moehle, and Charles Francis Barker. Moehle, for instance, gained further popularity playing chess in the United States, where the contraption was also exhibited in the Eden Museum in 1885 and Coney Island in 1915. Solomon Lipschuetz was one of Ajeeb's notable opponents during this period. The machine also played checkers, matching against figures such as 1920s American champ Sam Gonotsky, who would also direct the machine under the ownership of Hattie Elmore.In the history of such devices, it succeeded the "Mechanical Turk" and preceded "Mephisto".

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1. Ajeeb

   Ajeeb was a chess-playing "automaton", created by Charles Hooper, first presented at the Royal Polytechnical Institute in 1868. A particularly intriguing piece of faux mechanical technology, it drew scores of thousands of spectators to its games, the opponents for which included Harry Houdini, Theodore Roosevelt, and O. Henry. The genius behind "Ajeeb" were players such as Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Albert Beauregard Hodges, Constant Ferdinand Burille, Charles Moehle, and Charles Francis Barker. In the history of such devices, it succeeded "The Turk" and preceded "Mephisto". After several spectacular demonstrations at Coney Island, New York, Ajeeb was destroyed in a fire in 1929. Ajeeb is an Urdu word meaning strange or unexplainable. In Arabic ajeeb means something very unique and beautiful.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of ajeeb in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of ajeeb in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajeeb
2. ^ Wikidata
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