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• At the Moscow Open chess tournament, a chess-playing robot apparently became unsettled by a 7-year-old player's quick move in the game, so it grabbed the child's hand and snapped one of his fingers, the Guardian reported.
"The robot broke the child's finger," said Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation. "This is of course bad."
Ya think?
Another official explained: "There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realize he first had to wait."
The player, Christopher, returned to the tournament the next day. His parents have contacted the public prosecutor's office. [Guardian, 7/24/2022]