How a silent sport like chess can turn into a deadly one when technology comes into play
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A chess robot grabbed and fractured his seven-year-old opponent’s finger during a match.
This sad yet astonishing incident took place during the Moscow Open in Russia, when a young Chess player's was inadvertently injured
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At the Moscow Chess Open, a chess-playing robot callously grabbed and broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger and fractured it during a match.
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According to a report by the Baza Telegram channel, the 7-year-old boy is named as Christopher and he is among the 30 best chess players in Moscow in the under-nines category.
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In the above video, you can see how the poor chess player had to suffer a lot after being
Moscow Chess Federation president Sergey Lazarev said "The robot has played several matches earlier without being perturbed. But the child’s finger broke. This is of course bad,”
The vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, Sergey Smagin, blamed the child, "The robot appeared to pounce after it took one of the boy’s pieces. Rather than waiting for the machine to complete its move, the boy opted for a quick riposte