Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during Moscow Open
July 25, 2022, 9:55 am

Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during Moscow Open

Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide - Photo. Pixabay

A Russian chess-playing robot broke a seven-year-old boy’s finger during a match in Moscow last week, a video circulating on social media showed, the Alarabiya English reported.

“The robot broke the child’s finger… This is of course bad,” Moscow Chess Federation President Sergey Lazarev told Russian news agency TASS.

The video first showed the robot taking one of the child’s chess pieces, and when the boy was making a move, the robot grabbed his finger.

Some adults rushed to help the child who was eventually freed from the robot’s grip and moved away from it.

TASS reported that the seven-year-old spent the final days of the tournament in a cast.

Lazarev said the machine played several chess matches before without such an incident taking place.

WARNING: GRAPHIC ⚠️ A chess-playing robot grabs a 7-year-old's finger during a match at the Moscow Open and breaks it pic.twitter.com/I95VYwjk3S
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Chess is a board game played between two players. It is sometimes called Western chess or international chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi and shogi.

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The current form of the game emerged in Spain and the rest of Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from chaturanga, a similar but much older game of Indian origin.

Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide.

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