Kid Tries To Cheat Chess Playing Robot And Immediately Gets Finger Snapped In Half

NBC News

A chess-playing robot fractured the finger of its 7-year-old opponent during a tournament in Moscow last week. The incident happened after the boy hurried the artificial intelligence-powered robot, the president of the Moscow Chess Federation told the Russian state news agency Tass. “The robot broke the child’s finger — this, of course, is bad,” Sergey Lazarev said.

Just another day in Russia. I mean we've known forever now that Russia is full of absolutely insane people, but I think a chess playing robot snapping the finger of a child like it's a damn Kit Kat bar is next level bat shit crazy, and don't get me wrong... Fucking hilarious too. 

"Break me off a piece of that... child's finger". Not quite, Andy. 

Hasn't this kid ever seen "I, Robot?" I'm sure there's a Russian version and I guarantee the robots are a thousand times more disobedient than the one Will Smith tried to slap. This is what happens when you try to outsmart a piece of Russian machinery made to beat you in a strategy game. The kid is lucky he still has nine other properly functioning fingers. Hell for all we know he's probably Brittney Griner's new roommate by now. And as if a chess playing robot breaking a kid's fucking finger wasn't already comedy gold, the quote given by the president of the Moscow Chess Federation is icing on this comedy cake and perfectly sums up this hilariously "only in Russia" news story. 

"The robot broke the child's finger. This, of course, is bad." 

Haha ya don't say. My god. Only in Russia.