A chess-playing robot latched onto and subsequently fractured a 7-year-old boy's finger at the Moscow Chess Open competition on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.

A chess-playing robot latched onto and subsequently fractured a 7-year-old boy's finger at the Moscow Chess Open competition on Tuesday, according to multiple reports.

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.

Talk about bad sportsmanship — and at the hands of a robot, no less. An AI-powered machine equipped with the gift of game strategizing (but definitely not good manners) has reportedly injured a ...

The clips shows an aerial view of the boy playing chess against a robotic arm. When the robot snatches the boy's finger, bystanders rush over to physically pry the boy's finger from the robot's grasp.

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 robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger while they were playing chess during a tournament in Moscow, Russian news agency TASS reported.

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.

A robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger while they were playing chess during a tournament in Moscow, Russian news agency TASS reported.

(CNN) -- 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.

MOSCOW (AP) — A chess-playing robot grabbed the finger of its 7-year-old opponent and broke it during last week’s Moscow Chess Open tournament, Russian media reported Monday.