In a battle in a competition in Russia, a chess-playing robot fractured the finger of its 7-year-old opponent.
According to regional Russian media, the robot accidentally grasped the boy’s finger while they were competing against each other in the Moscow Open last week.
The president of the Moscow Chess Federation, Sergey Lazarev, told TASS on Thursday that “the robot fractured the child’s finger – this, of course, is horrible.” Before the robot, a sizable mechanical arm driven by artificial intelligence, had time to recalculate and mistake the boy’s finger for a chess piece, the kid allegedly made his next move on the board.
He said to the source in Russian, “The youngster made a move, and after that we need to leave time for the robot to answer, but the boy hurried, the robot grabbed him.” The robot arm seems to grip onto the boy’s finger for many seconds in video of the event that was released by the Baza Telegram channel. Eventually, adults intervene and are able to remove the mechanical arm off the boy’s hand.
The next day, the young chess player—whose name, according to Baza, is Christopher—returned to the competition and finished his matches while wearing a cast on one of his fingers, according to Lazarev.
According to Baza, Christopher is among the top 30 young chess players in Moscow.
The robot was hired by the organization for the Moscow Chess Open and has the capacity to play many matches at once. According to Lazarev, it has been utilized in numerous chess events. TASS reports that the child’s parents have been in touch with the public prosecutor’s office.