Robots as well as synthetic intelligence have been no foreigner to chess, but it’s not each day you get to declare an actual, burning game of shell chess between a World Champion and the robotic arm. Vladimir Kramnik, who was World Chess Champion from 2006 to 2007, seems to take the game pretty accidentally, but a robo-arm’s discerning, wilful moves feel only a small melancholy to us. We get it, you’re the drudge, you don’t have to go cheering it from the rooftops!

Via Engadget