A chess-playing robot grabbed its 7-year-old opponent and wouldn’t let go during a match in Russia. The child was quickly freed by nearby adults but ended up with a broken finger. According to The ...

A chess-playing robot fractured the finger of its 7-year-old opponent during a tournament in Moscow last week. The incident happened after the boy hurried the artificial intelligence-powered robot, ...

Here’s a life lesson I never thought I’d write about: Beware of robots when playing chess. Seriously. Take it from one 7-year-old chess player in Moscow, who learned (the hard way) that robot chess ...

Less “checkmate,” more “check your finger to see if it’s still intact, buddy.” A robot chess player went outside the usual rules of the game recently when it made a move that shocked onlookers and ...

A Russian robot grabbed and broke the finger of his 7-year-old opponent in Moscow last week. Video published by Russian news site Baza shows the boy struggling to break free from the robot. An ...

A chess-playing robot broke the finger of its 7-year-old opponent during a match at a tournament in Russia. The boy was facing off against the robot when it mistakenly grabbed and broke the child’s ...

[Photo: Patrick McCabe] Playing chess with a computer program is often the best way to challenge yourself as a player when you don’t have a partner to play with. Unfortunately, playing chess on the ...

I take no joy in saying this, but for our own survival, we humans must immediately destroy all robots. They drew first blood. In case you missed the news story – perhaps because you were kidnapped by ...

The president of the Moscow Chess Federation reportedly said "robot operators, apparently, will have to think about strengthening protection so that such a situation does not happen again" Amanda ...

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 ...