Chess Robot Grabs & Breaks The Finger Of Its 7-Year-Old Opponent – Video

A Chess Robot Grabbed & Broke The Finger Of Its 7-Year-Old Opponent For Violating Safety Rules

Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour.

Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines.

Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.

Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of a 7-Year-Old boy after child ‘violated’ safety rules pic.twitter.com/c7ySzRAuaJ

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The boy, named locally as Christopher, is thought to be one of the best young chess players in the Russian capital city.

But he suffered the horrible injury while competing in the Moscow Open this week.

Video footage shows the robot making a move to steal one of the child’s pieces.

As he drops it into the box beside the board, the quick-thinking boy immediately responds with a move of his own.