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Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent
The Guardian ^
| Jul 24, 2022
| Luke Harding, Jon Henly
Posted on 07/25/2022 6:20:28 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie
Played by humans, chess is a game of strategic thinking, calm concentration and patient intellectual endeavour. Violence does not usually come into it. The same, it seems, cannot always be said of machines.
Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.
“The robot broke the child’s finger,” Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation, told the TASS news agency after the incident, adding that the machine had played many previous exhibitions without upset. “This is of course bad.”
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: andagain; andsoitbegins; chat; chess; russia
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Russian robots, like Russian soldiers have a very nasty demeanor when things are not going their way.
To: The_Media_never_lie
was the robot’s name Hal?
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:21:49 PM PDT
by
max americana
(Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
Harming your opponent should be an automatic disqualifier for the robot - No more Chess for YOU!!!
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:26:10 PM PDT
by
Ken522
To: The_Media_never_lie
I read earlier that they think the kid not pausing to think made the robot think he was cheating. I guess there’s an expected time for thinking about your move. Evidently the robot knows that. I bet it’s reacting to it was a surprise. Did the Russians steal some AI code that they don’t fully know about?
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:28:14 PM PDT
by
Pollard
(If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:31:46 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: The_Media_never_lie
and they made it strong enough to break bones because???
chess pieces aren’t THAT heavy...
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:32:33 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: Chode
and they made it strong enough to break bones because???Because they need it to withstand the fury of a Wookie.
Wookies are very bad losers.
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:33:24 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The firearms I own today, are the firearms I will die with. How I die will be up to them.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
That little brat had it coming! Checkmate my shiny metal @$$!
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:33:51 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Rush, we're missing your take on all of this!)
To: The_Media_never_lie
He was trying the Horvath Gambit when the Renquith was clearly called for. Little brat got what he deserved.
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:34:11 PM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐Public hangings will wake 'em up.⭐⭐)
To: Chode
I think the AI in the robot may have modified the code that limits strength, so that it could punish cheaters.
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:34:36 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Flash news: President Biden has tested positive for brain function!)
To: Alas Babylon!
This place hasn’t been the same since Bender2 passed.
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:35:43 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: The_Media_never_lie
The robot was merely enforcing the “you touch it you move it” rule that the kid was trying to sidestep.
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:37:40 PM PDT
by
StAntKnee
(Add your own danged sarc tag)
To: The_Media_never_lie
That’s what I usually do when I realize the kids going to beat me. Works every time.
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:38:00 PM PDT
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
To: TangoLimaSierra
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:41:19 PM PDT
by
mcshot
(If we're the best of the bunch we're in trouble.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
Ghost of Kiev infiltrated the robot and attacked the kid...
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:42:27 PM PDT
by
Thunder90
(All posts soley represent my own opinion.)
To: The_Media_never_lie
In Russia, robot breaks YOU!
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:42:44 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: The_Media_never_lie
So, to even the score, the little boy should be given a mallet and allowed to smack the robot one time vigorously in the noggin. Tit for Tat.
“Deprogram THIS, why don’t you?!”
To: The_Media_never_lie
They should give the dad a sledge hammer and leave him with the robot 2 minutes.
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:55:57 PM PDT
by
GnuThere
To: BradyLS
Good thing the robot didn’t grab the kid’s wrist.
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posted on
07/25/2022 6:56:09 PM PDT
by
The_Media_never_lie
(Flash news: President Biden has tested positive for brain function!)
To: The_Media_never_lie
"That one's called Anger"
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posted on
07/25/2022 7:00:23 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
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