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Response at the time of its publication was strong. It elicited responses from the ''Norfolk Herald'', ''Baltimore Gazette'', ''Baltimore Patriot'', ''United States Gazette'', ''Charleston Courier'', ''Winchester Virginian'', and ''New Yorker'' (the last of which suggested the article's only fault was its excessive length).<ref>Wimsatt, W.K. "Poe and the Chess Automaton" in ''On Poe: The Best of "American Literature"''. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993: 78. {{ISBN|0-8223-1311-1}}</ref>
Poe's "Maelzel's Chess Player" was the inspiration for the 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".{{citation needed|date=June 2013}}
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