The idea of a chess robot isn't actually something new. In the 1700s, a device called the Mechanical Turk was touring Europe and taking on challenges from chess fans.

A chess robot broke the finger of a seven-year-old boy playing in a tournament in Russia, according to reports from local news outlets (seen via The Guardian).

The robot takes some time to make its next decision after a move has been made, and, apparently, the boy didn’t feel like waiting. “A robot broke a child’s finger — this is, of course, bad ...

A damaged ego is usually the worst injury a chess player can come out of a match with. But in Russia, a seven-year-old child playing with a robot was forced to interrupt the game when the machine ...

At the time, the robot was playing a chess match against three children at once. Baza described the victim as one of the “30 strongest” chess players in Moscow under 9 years old.

This is the amusing moment a robot faced off with an elderly man in a game of Chinese chess. Footage shows the pensioner, 90, ...

Lieberman came across the Raspberry Turk, a chess robot built by software engineer Joey Meyer, and knew that she wanted to replicate it for her pre-engineering class.

A robot chess player went outside the usual rules of the game by making a move that shocked onlookers and left its seven-year-old opponent with a broken finger.

A chess-playing robot broke the finger of its 7-year-old opponent during a match at a tournament in Russia. The boy was facing off against the robot when it mistakenly grabbed and broke the child ...

A chess-playing robot grabbed and broke the finger of its 7-year-old opponent at a Moscow chess tournament. The incident occurred on July 19 after the young player moved too quickly in violation ...

In the late 18th Century, a chess-playing machine known as "The Mechanical Turk" toured the world, defeating the likes of Napoleon and Benjamin Franklin. But this remarkable chess robot wasn't the ...

A Russian chess robot broke one of its opponent's fingers during a match at the Moscow Chess Open. The 7-year-old boy was freed moments after the robot grabbed him.