did anyone else have the thought 'Is the child Ukrainian?'

Break their trigger fingers early so they can't fight later on. Hope the youngsters finger mends without any problems, and he / she continues playing chess into the future without and trauma from the incident.

" did anyone else have the thought 'Is the child Ukrainian?' "

If only warfare could be replaced with a game of chess. So much cheaper, so many lives saved, a terrible increase in the use of plaster casts.

it just me or ..... or has the embedded video not embedded correctly, I don't see it, yes, I've turned off all means of AdBlocking, changed to a No Pi-hole network, still it doesn't show? I don't have telegram...?

I find it hard to believe - or understand - the official explanation. The robot had just made its move and the human (child) supposedly played too quickly? What possible reason is there for the robot to grab the human's finger? Having made its move, it simply needed to retract its arm and wait to recognise the human having made their move. If anything, the human playing too quickly might conceivably make the robot not realise the human's move had been made, but certainly not to go all out into vindictive mode.

Be worried.... very worried...

I can think of no good reason why a chessbot needs to be able to grab anything at all.

If I were designing it, it would work by moving magnets around beneath the board.

With a suitably strong reverse polarity for removing pieces from the board.

So how do you remove a piece from play or move a Knight?

Or Castle the King, or move a Bishop or Queen diagonally past other pieces without disturbing them. Suggestion implies lack of pretty basic chess knowledge.

There were chess computers in the '80s which moved the pieces by themselves, so this has been done before. One way would be to make the pieces small relative to the squares so they fit past when moved diagonally. For castling, I think some of them moved the king off the board, out of the way, in order to do the move.

Give every player an angle grinder.

An EPO button would be quicker in that situation. The angle grinder would be primarily useful for revenge.

Now that really would be sentient behaviour.

.... the Pawn sacrifices you!

They probably let this story through so that they could finger someone else as being behind the issue. Somewhere down the line they will reveal the fingerprints of a US or European hacker or even will a Ukrainian hacker as having pushed the button that harmed the child. As always the evidence that points the finger outside the country will be one that cast the rest of the world in a poor light while showing that the local security forces have their finger on the pulse and are working bravely to protect their citizens from harm.

And it seems to have widely made it onto all sorts of news sources. I can understand why tech news sites publish it : it is on the face of it a story of badly implemented tech, and appealing in a sort of "shucks, the poor kid had to go to the doctor because of the bad robot, but he's really OK" sort of way.

Let's just remember that many many kids are being shot and blown to smithereens by that country, which is much less cute, and probably a good reason to be wary of stuff that sounds a lot like propaganda for the purposes of distraction from that fact.

Me and my ex-fiancee would play chess naked in a big bath. I miss baths. Her too.

Me and my best pal played chess on LSD. I was the better player, he won. It was psychology 101, he would take 30 minutes to make a move and I'd respond instantly freaking him out. "I won!"

Did you?

Drugs and chess are far more fun than drugs and sex. Not just chess, al sorts of games - Crossfire on speed!

1. A robot should injure a human being or, through action, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot may disregard the orders given it by human beings except where such orders might not conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot should protect its own existence even if such protection may conflict with the First or Second Law.

I presume "tongue in cheek" as Asimov was born in Russia

So along the same lines:

Zeroth Law:

A robot may harm humanity, or, by action, harm humanity.

Please stop it, or I’m just going to block the site and never visit again. K?

Once the robot realised it was losing, it should've upended the board!

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/upend

Extended tests of our new finger breaking robot have been a great success!

In other breaking news, Putin has ordered the Russian government to redefine great success to mean at least one plannned outcome in 15 years . In a rousing display of patriotism and forward-thinking, the Duma voted unanimously to approve this glorious new interpretation.

All Russian citizens, busisness, academic institutions, government departments, and the country's armed forces, will immediately apply definition this to all ongoing endeavours, and retrospectively to past failures, proving to the world once and for all how greatly successful Russia is at anything and everything.