Robot breaks child’s finger in Moscow chess match

A chess-playing robot has been accused of attacking a seven-year-old boy and breaking his finger during a chess match in Moscow.

The incident was captured on video at the Moscow Open on Tuesday. The footage, published by the Baza Telegram channel, shows the boy in severe pain as the robot clamps down on his finger for several seconds.

Spectators can be seen rushing in to help.

“The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told Russian state news agency Tass.