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Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma... by stevage on Saturday July 23, 2022 @11:56PM (#32210178)
Sure there is, like if you move a piece, hit the clock, then realise your piece wasn't quite centered on the square. Maybe not technically correct, but reasonable.
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Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma... by charcircuit on Sunday July 24, 2022 @12:49AM (#32210424)
A robot isn't just going to grab your piece since the rules of the game state it has to move its own piece.
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Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma... by carbadtraingood on Sunday July 24, 2022 @02:57AM (#32211058)
Oh, that settles it. Robot cannot do things that are outside of the rules of chess.

Kid should have known better than to open with the classic, "break my finger" opening from the regulation standard rules.

Industrial robotics are incredibly dangerous. They operate without concern for anything in their path. Robotic arms like this can be lethal, and the idea that the robot wouldn't ever do anything unusual is, quite frankly, laughable naive.

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Re:A chess robot in Moscow has broken the finger of its huma... by imtringued on Sunday July 24, 2022 @05:48AM (#32211821)
The problem isn't that the robot did anything unusual, it did exactly what it was supposed to do which is crush everything in its path.
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