# Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during chess tournament **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485 "2022-07-24T19:02:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/1 "2022-07-24T19:02:36Z")
Blake Lemoine may have a point. > **[Chess robot breaks seven-year-old boy's finger during Moscow Open](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62286017)** > > The child was trying to make his next move at the Moscow Open when the robot grabbed him. > “The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergey Lazarev, Moscow Chess Federation President, told Tass news agency. “ **This is of course bad**.” you think …? No, Discourse. My topic is absolutely NOTHING LIKE those topics. Don’t be stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/2 "2022-07-24T19:03:56Z")
Turing test passed!! ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/3 "2022-07-24T19:09:08Z")
In communist Russia chess robot physically check you! ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/4 "2022-07-24T19:09:52Z")
The robot was quoted as saying: “Bidi-bidi-bidi, fuck you, Buck!” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/5 "2022-07-24T19:22:08Z")
Somewhere, Isaac Asimov is sighing… ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/6 "2022-07-24T19:29:44Z")
I call buggy software. Somebody should have checked (no pun intended) that the bot could recognize the difference between a child’s finger and a playing piece, yet we march inexorably toward self-driving cars. What could go wrong? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/7 "2022-07-24T19:39:30Z")
Some car is going to drive over a seven-year-old boy’s finger, just you wait and see! ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/8 "2022-07-24T19:43:37Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > Somewhere, Isaac Asimov is sighing… I’m reasonably sure that the robot in question does not have a positronic brain. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/9 "2022-07-24T19:50:12Z")
The kid should have let the robot win. Kids don’t break robots’ fingers when they lose. Robots have been known to do that ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/10 "2022-07-24T20:18:30Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yVfQ0PdjafM/hqdefault.jpg "Chess robot breaks a kid's finger | Twitter Viral Video | #chess #robot #moscow") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVfQ0PdjafM) The incident. ---
**Author:** ![TheCuse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thecuse/32/2854_2.png) [@TheCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheCuse)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/11 "2022-07-24T21:00:10Z")
> [@Princhester](#): > > The kid should have let the robot win. Kids don’t break robots’ fingers when they lose. Robots have been known to do that Robots are known to break children’s fingers? I didn’t know it was that common. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/12 "2022-07-24T21:04:13Z")
“Let the Wookie win.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/13 "2022-07-24T21:23:25Z")
So it’s not just old people who need robot insurance? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/g4Gh_IcK8UM/maxresdefault.jpg "Old Glory Insurance - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4Gh_IcK8UM) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/14 "2022-07-24T21:40:23Z")
The Tested channel with Adam Savage has a Spot robot from Boston Dynamics. Adam has mentioned how dangerous it can be sharing space with robots. Their movements don’t take into account any humans that are in the way. Boston Dynamics did have a representative working with the Tested Team. The project went on hold during Covid. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/15 "2022-07-24T21:54:54Z")
So, whose move was it? Apparently someone’s hand was on the board that shouldn’t have been-- Whose was it? And even if the robot thought that the kid’s finger was a piece, shouldn’t that have looked like an invalid board, because it knew what the prior position was and a finite list of possible moves the kid could have made? ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/16 "2022-07-24T21:57:56Z")
The zero’th rule involves chess. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/17 "2022-07-24T22:05:37Z")
Only in Russia! I would promote the robot _en passant_ for an ilegal move to [chess boxing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_boxing). ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/18 "2022-07-24T22:17:20Z")
The Robot Revolution has begun! Ambrose Bierce [called it](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxon%27s_Master)! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/19 "2022-07-24T22:33:05Z")
Expect them to install electronic eyes at the four corners of the chessboard. They could even combine the reset button with the chess clock ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2022, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485/20 "2022-07-24T23:35:57Z")
Decades ago, there was a chess computer that moved the pieces safely. The computer was contained in a sealed plastic box with a chess board on the top. Each piece had a magnet in its base and inside the box was a set of levers with another magnet to drag pieces into position. The computer moved the levers, avoiding knocking over any pieces still on the board. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chess-robot-breaks-seven-year-old-boys-finger-during-chess-tournament/968485.md?page=2)