television short El jugador de ajedrez aka Le joueur d'échecs de Maelzel (1981), directed by Juan Luis Buñuel and shown as part of the Poe-series Histoires extraordinaires. The essay is cited without name by Walter Benjamin in the first of his "Theses on the Philosophy of History". References External links Timeline of publications at the Edgar Allan Poe Society online Essays by Edgar Allan Poe 1836 essays Works originally published in the Southern Literary Messenger Chess automatons 1836 in chess Essays about chess