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At the Moscow Open chess tourna- ment on July 19, a chess-playing robot appar- ently became unsettled by a 7-year-old player’s quick move in the game, so it grabbed the child’s hand and snapped one of his fingers, The Guardian reported.
Russian Bot Gets Snappy During Chess Tourney
returned to the tournament the next day. His parents have contacted the public prosecu- tor’s office.
investigators took DNA sam- ples from the smear there. Analysis showed the blood belonged to a man named Chai, who had a criminal record and was arrested 19 days later for that burglary and three others.
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On July 25, the Curry County (Oregon) Sheriff’s Office received a call from the U.S. Forest Service about fires burning in the county, CNN reported. An employee of the Bureau of Land Man- agement had reportedly seen a man walking along a gravel road, starting fires. As crews on the ground got the blaz- es under control, three area
residents spotted 30-year-old Trennon Smith walking near the fires, according to Sheriff John Ward.
“The robot broke the child’s finger,” said Sergey Lazarev, president of the Moscow Chess Federation. “This is, of course, bad.”
The Global Times reported that in China’s Fujian Prov- ince, investigators on a bur- glary case got a hot tip from a pesky source: a smashed mosquito.
The sheriff added that Smith had allegedly set the fires in a manner that would block residents from escaping. He was charged with first-degree arson, sec- ond-degree arson and reck- less burning.
Another official explained: “There are certain safety rules and the child, appar- ently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realize he first had to wait.”
As police checked out the scene, they believed the suspect may have stayed overnight in the apartment; among other things, they found a piece of mosquito coil, used to deter the in- sects. One skeeter met its bloody demise on a wall, and
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“It was reported that the suspect became very combat- ive with the three residents andhadtobetiedtoatreeto subdue him,” Ward said.
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