A false start gets you a 5-yard penalty in football. In chess, it’s a broken finger.
A 7-year-old competing against a chess-playing robot in a tournament in Moscow paid the price for making a move and not allowing enough time for the robot to respond. Or maybe the machine mistook his finger for a pawn.
As Moscow Chess Federation president Sergei Lazarev told TASS: “The child played the very next day (and) finished the tournament in a cast.”
