A 7-year-old boy is recovering after his finger was broken by a chess-playing robot in Russia last week at an event in Moscow.

A 7-year-old boy competing in a Russian chess tournament had his index finger broken by his opponent: a robot who went haywire.

A chess-playing robot broke a boy's finger during a match in Russia last week, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told state news agency TASS media.

Who would have thought the Robot Apocalypse starts with a chess match? According to various media outlets, a chess-playing robot broke a child’s finger during an event in Russia. The rest of us ...

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 finger.