Robot chess player grabs and snaps finger of 7-year-old human opponent

Despite its extremely competitive nature and high skill ceiling, chess has never been known as a game that involves any sort of physicality, nevermind violence. Sure, a player may end up flipping the playing board in frustration from time to time, but almost never do you hear about a player getting injured while playing the game. Well, it seems that there’s a first for everything, as evidenced by a seven-year-old chess player in Russia getting his finger snapped by a robot opponent .

According to reports, the incident happened last week at the Moscow Open chess championships, where a robot specifically designed to play chess with live human opponents ended up grabbing the kid’s finger during a match and then breaking it. A video posted online showed the incident happening, and you can see the moment when the robot’s singular arm pinches the boy’s finger as he tries to make a quick counter-move against the AI player. Jesus… A robot broke kid‘s finger at Chess Tournament in Moscow @elonmusk @MagnusCarlsen There is no violence in chess, they said.

Come and play, they said. https://t. co/W7sgnxAFCi pic.

twitter. com/OVBGCv2R9H “The robot broke the child’s finger,” said Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, bluntly to reporters. “This is of course bad.

” Apparently, this incident was the first time the robot had acted in such a way following numerous previous matches against human opponents without incident. But unfortunately, the mishap had happened due to the way the kid had acted during the game – by responding too rashly to a move by the robot instead of waiting for it to complete its turn. The robot – which has the ability to play multiple matches at once – had apparently tried to pick up a piece from the boy’s side of the board when the kid made a quick move to respond to the robot.

This ended up causing the robot to mistakenly pinch the boy’s finger instead, which resulted in injury. “There are certain safety rules, and the child, apparently, violated them,” said Sergey Smagin, the vice president of the Russian Chess Federation. “When he made his move, he did not realize that he first had to wait.

This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall. ” The child player was identified as a nine-year-old named Christopher, whom officials identified as one of the top players within the under-nines category in Moscow, and it so happened that the kid most probably forgot about the protocols of playing against a robot opponent and treated the game like a typical round of speed chess, where players often rush to make responses even before their opponents have completed their own moves. While the boy’s finger was held in a vice, people rushed over to pull it out of the robot’s grip, but by the time they’d managed it, the damage had already been done.

Incredibly, Christopher was seemingly unfazed by the incident, and despite having his finger in a cast, managed to continue playing the very next day while also volunteering to help record moves during other games. In the end, the whole affair was deemed nothing more than an accident. Despite Christopher’s parents making contact with the public prosecutor’s office, Smagin said to a news outlet that the mishap was nothing more than a coincidence, and that the robot was still considered safe to play against.

If anything, this incident isn’t the trigger to signal an impending hostile AI takeover, but rather the need for engineers to go back to the drawing board to design robots less susceptible to making errors that could harm humans. “All acquisition that advanced AI will destroy humanity is false,” said Smagin while defending the robot’s AI capabilities. “It’s not the power AI or breaching of the laws of robotics that will destroy humanity, but rather engineers with two left hands.

” WhatsApp will finally let you hide the fact that you’re on WhatsApp all day TikTok auto-captions are rolling out for ‘select videos’ on your FYP Twitch now lets you share ban lists with other channels and stomp out trolls S’pore app uses AI to analyze your dick pic for any potential signs of STDs Cover image sourced from PC Gamer/Moscow Chess Federation and Pond 5 . .