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. The device's name was derived from the Arabic/Urdu/Persian word عجيب (ʿajīb) meaning "wonderful, marvelous."

The genius behind "Ajeeb" were players such as Harry Nelson Pillsbury (1898–1904),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".

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Ajeeb (TV series)

Ajeeb - The Other Side is an Indian television series set in a hospital where something strange is always going on.

Production

With 17 episodes to date, Ajeeb stars include Tanaaz and Bakhtiyar Irani, Sakshi Tanwar, Shweta Tiwari, Varun Badola, Shruti Seth.

Story & Screenplay Rajiv Pandey & Insia Dariwala

Broadcast

It began airing on the Hindi General Entertainment channel 9X on August 2008 in the 9.30pm - 10.30pm timeslot.

Cast

Awards

Ajeed received the jury award for Best Thriller at the 8th annual Indian Television Academy Awards in 2008.

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