A chess-playing robot at a tournament in Russia grabbed and broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger during a game last week. We must destroy all robots.

A chess-playing robot at a tournament in Russia grabbed and broke a 7-year-old boy’s finger during a game last week. We must destroy all robots.

A robot chess player went outside the usual rules of the game by making a move that shocked onlookers and left its seven-year-old opponent with a broken finger.

Talk about bad sportsmanship — and at the hands of a robot, no less. An AI-powered machine equipped with the gift of game strategizing (but definitely not good manners) has reportedly injured a ...

The clips shows an aerial view of the boy playing chess against a robotic arm. When the robot snatches the boy's finger, bystanders rush over to physically pry the boy's finger from the robot's grasp.

A robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger while they were playing chess during a tournament in Moscow, Russian news agency TASS reported.

A relatively normal—well, as normal as human-vs-robot chess can be—chess game went awry last week when a 7-year-old boy’s robotic opponent broke the boy’s finger.

MOSCOW — A chess-playing robot grabbed the finger of its 7-year-old opponent and broke it during last week’s Moscow Chess Open tournament, Russian media reported Monday.