At an international chess tournament in Moscow, Russia, a chess robot competing against a seven-year-old boy mistook his finger for a board piece.

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Sergey Smagin, Moscow Chess Federation’s vice president, said in an interview with RIA Novosti that there are no plans to ban the robot but safety procedures will be evaluated: “It happens – a coincidence. It is necessary, apparently, to warn the children additionally. It is extremely strange that this happened, but it happened, it happens.

“It will be necessary to analyze why this happened. The robot has a very talented inventor. It may be necessary to install an additional protection system.”

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