![]() ![]() The machine, which can play multiple matches at a time and had reportedly already played three on the day it encountered Christopher, was “unique”, he said. Smagin told RIA Novosti the incident was “a coincidence” and the robot was “absolutely safe”. “We will communicate, figure it out and try to help in any way we can,” he said. His parents, however, have reportedly contacted the public prosecutor’s office. ![]() “The child played the very next day, finished the tournament, and volunteers helped to record the moves,” he said. ![]() Lazarev told Tass that Christopher, whose finger was put in a plaster cast, did not seem overly traumatised by the attack. “People rushed to help and pulled out the finger of the young player, but the fracture could not be avoided,” it said. Either way, he said, the robot’s suppliers were “going to have to think again”.īaza named the boy as Christopher and said he was one of the 30 best chess players in the Russian capital in the under-nines category. Lazarev had a different account, saying the child had “made a move, and after that we need to give time for the robot to answer, but the boy hurried and the robot grabbed him”. “This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall,” he added. When he made his move, he did not realise he first had to wait,” Smagin said. “There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them. Rather than waiting for the machine to complete its move, the boy opted for a quick riposte, he said. Sergey Smagin, vice-president of the Russian Chess Federation, told Baza the robot appeared to pounce after it took one of the boy’s pieces. Video of the 19 July incident published by the Baza Telegram channel shows the boy’s finger being pinched by the robotic arm for several seconds before a woman followed by three men rush in, free him and usher him away. ![]()
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