Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent

Moscow incident occurred because child 'violated' safety rules by taking turn too quickly, says official A chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open last week, Russian media outlets have reported. "The robot broke the child's finger," Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the TASS news agency after the incident, adding that the machine had played many previous e...