Maelzel's Chess Player

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Maelzel's Chess Player

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Maelzel's Chess Player - essay by Edgar Allan Poe, exposing the chess automaton "The Turk" as fraudulent. Article “Maelzel's Chess Player” in English Wikipedia has 23.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 7 references and 4 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

Since the creation of article “Maelzel's Chess Player”, its content was written by 30 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 35 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 109 times in English Wikipedia and cited 325 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #107418 in June 2024
  • Global: #338562 in June 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #628727 in February 2008
  • Global: #1002899 in February 2008

There are 4 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Maelzel's Chess Player
23.6522
2Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul de șah al lui Maelzel
22.6221
3Russian (ru)
Шахматист Мельцеля
22.4179
4French (fr)
Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel
15.4979
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Maelzel's Chess Player" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Maelzel's Chess Player
101 694
2Russian (ru)
Шахматист Мельцеля
4 474
3French (fr)
Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel
2 223
4Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul de șah al lui Maelzel
1 242
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Maelzel's Chess Player" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Maelzel's Chess Player
598
2French (fr)
Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel
75
3Russian (ru)
Шахматист Мельцеля
73
4Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul de șah al lui Maelzel
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Maelzel's Chess Player" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Maelzel's Chess Player
30
2Russian (ru)
Шахматист Мельцеля
3
3French (fr)
Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel
1
4Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul de șah al lui Maelzel
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Maelzel's Chess Player" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Maelzel's Chess Player
0
2French (fr)
Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel
0
3Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul de șah al lui Maelzel
0
4Russian (ru)
Шахматист Мельцеля
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Maelzel's Chess Player" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Maelzel's Chess Player
109
2French (fr)
Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel
82
3Romanian (ro)
Jucătorul de șah al lui Maelzel
67
4Russian (ru)
Шахматист Мельцеля
67
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
enEnglish
Maelzel's Chess Player
frFrench
Le Joueur d'échecs de Maelzel
roRomanian
Jucătorul de șah al lui Maelzel
ruRussian
Шахматист Мельцеля

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#628727
02.2008
Global:
#1002899
02.2008

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#107418
06.2024
Global:
#338562
06.2024

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Maelzel's Chess Player from Wikipedia articles about The Turk, Edgar Allan Poe bibliography, History of artificial intelligence, The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade and The Murders in the Rue Morgue. Whereas reading the article about Maelzel's Chess Player people most often go to Wikipedia articles on The Turk, Johann Nepomuk Maelzel, William Schlumberger, Wolfgang von Kempelen and The Gold-Bug.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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