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The headlines are striking. ‘Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven year old opponent’

The vicious act of nipper nipping took place in a demonstration event in Moscow. It seems that the robot had been programmed in turn-taking. Its human opponent moves a piece from one chess board square to another. The robot differentiates legal and illegal chess moves.

If the move is legal, the robot activates its move-making sequences, plucking up an opponent’s piece if its move involves a capture, then moving his own piece to the desired square. It then retreats the robotic ‘arm’ to its default position.

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