Chess Robot Breaks 7-Year-Old Boy’s Finger at Moscow Tournament

Chess Robot , Breaks 7-Year-Old Boy’s Finger, at Moscow Tournament.

'The Guardian' reports that a chess-playing robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old boy during a match at the Moscow Open.

The robot broke the child’s finger, Sergey Lazarev, President of the Moscow Chess Federation, via 'The Guardian'.

This is of course bad, Sergey Lazarev, President of the Moscow Chess Federation, via 'The Guardian'.

According to Sergey Smagin, the vice president of the Russian Chess Federation, the robot pinned the boy's finger after taking one of his pieces.

Smagin said that the incident happened after the boy failed to wait for the machine to complete its move.

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, Sergey Lazarev, President of the Moscow Chess Federation, via 'The Guardian'.

According to Lazarev, the child, whose finger was put in a plaster cast, did not seem overly traumatized by the incident.

A study in 2015 found that one person is killed every year by an industrial robot in the United States alone.

According to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), most work accidents involving robots since 2000 have been fatalities.

The first fatal accident involving a robot came in 1979, when Robert Williams was crushed to death by a one-ton robot on Ford's Michigan production line