How should i do it?
He is interested ... he sees me play and wants to learn .... but i don't know where to start.
should i set them up as at the start of a game? - then he has to learn how all the pieces move at once.
should i just let him have all the pieces and i only have a king?
should we both have just pawns and no pieces?
??????
There is a set made especially for your objective. It only has five files and one of each piece. It probably also has ideas on how to teach a kid. I don't know who makes it.
If I were going to do it with a regular set, I'd start by teaching him how to move the pieces of course. First the King, then the Rooks and Bishops, then the Queen, then the Knight, then the Pawns. Then I'd just play the game with him with both sides having all the pieces and Pawns as normal. Offer him lots of material en prise and see if he can catch it. Take his stuff sometimes, but not always. Play him as though you were at his level. Praise him whenever he does something good, and keep quiet sometimes when he makes mistakes. Occasionally point out the mistakes he should be able to understand but not enough to frustrate him, and be nice about it.
When you play, have your first move be a solid one and stick with it. I'd suggest e4 as it tends to be more tactical than d4 and is a center Pawn opening. As he gets to know the game, pick a standard, solid second move for each of his first moves. This way he'll start to pick up an opening repetoire (sp?).
Don't pressure him to play when he gets bored of it.
Originally posted by flexmoreMake it fun bro. Let him laugh and have fun playing a game with his old man. 🙂
How should i do it?
He is interested ... he sees me play and wants to learn .... but i don't know where to start.
should i set them up as at the start of a game? - then he has to learn how all the pieces move at once.
should i just let him have all the pieces and i only have a king?
should we both have just pawns and no pieces?
??????
Originally posted by AThousandYoungI recently bought a set for my nephew Aaron who is 5 years old. He swore blind that he knew how to play but then got very confused when moving the pieces. We had to start afresh.
There is a set made especially for your objective. It only has five files and one of each piece. It probably also has ideas on how to teach a kid. I don't know who makes it.
If I were going to do it with a regular set, I'd start by teaching him how to move the pieces of course. First the King, then the Rooks and Bishops, then the Queen, then ...[text shortened]... o pick up an opening repetoire (sp?).
Don't pressure him to play when he gets bored of it.
I think the best way to start is with how all the pieces move and capture.
Then explain mate and go through basic mates (I would leave out bishop and knight for now!).
Ignore castling and ep and then play a few games as you say.
Then introduce castling and ep and play a few more games.
You can keep returning to basic mates and how the pieces move as little tests.
Seems to work for me.
Originally posted by Corsairthere are books on how to teach children to play chess
I agree it has to be fun playing a game with his uncle - letting him win sometimes is quite important.
i taught my daughter to play when she was 3 yrs old
she plays on uchess now and is over 1400
she is 19
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Originally posted by Corsairthis is the same here ... at 2 years old he played some games for me on giant chess boards, he was in there moving the pieces for me, the pieces were as big as he was!!! (my opponents hated it of course .. but hell, i know my priorities!)
....He swore blind that he knew how to play but then got very confused when moving the pieces. We had to start afresh.....
he knows lots about the game ... but just does not accept that a queen cannot go round corners, that he can still win with no horse, that queens cannot just push pawns aside and blast on through ....
Originally posted by flexmoreWhaddaya mean queens can't go round corners??!??!!
this is the same here ... at 2 years old he played some games for me on giant chess boards, he was in there moving the pieces for me, the pieces were as big as he was!!! (my opponents hated it of course .. but hell, i know my priorities!)
he knows lots about the game ... but just does not accept that a queen cannot go round corners, that he can still win with no horse, that queens cannot just push pawns aside and blast on through ....
Damn
Originally posted by flexmorehave you had a look at chesskids.com?
this is the same here ... at 2 years old he played some games for me on giant chess boards, he was in there moving the pieces for me, the pieces were as big as he was!!! (my opponents hated it of course .. but hell, i know my priorities!)
he knows lots about the game ... but just does not accept that a queen cannot go round corners, that he can still win with no horse, that queens cannot just push pawns aside and blast on through ....
It's free and has lessons from very basic to early intermediate....my son thoroughly enjoys it. It also has a quiz feature that let's you print out certificates for the kids, which they seem to like alot. Also, check out the "arcade" games, these are very simple tactical quizzes to help introduce the concepts of undefended pieces and inadequate;y defended pieces. Good luck.
Originally posted by ArtherYes! It is absolutely superb--I used it to teach myself, after several abortive attempts over the years to "learn to play chess". If it can teach this old dog a new trick... 😀
I've heard that the chess program 'Fritz and Chesster' is excellent for teaching kids the game.
And as a mom of three, I'm in a position to evaluate it as a "computer game", and I can state unequivocally that it's perfectly designed to be flexible enough to meet the kid wherever he's at, in terms of his maturity, interest, attention span, and chess talent.
t has neat smaller games, and tutorials and drills, that are tailor-made for a Five to learn the basic chess moves, and then after he learns the basics, he can choose from a wide spectrum of opponents to suit his ability and attention span (he can choose easier skill levels if he finds it too frustrating to *always* get beat).
King Kaleidoscope plays very, very badly on purpose (I'm good enough at it now that I can tell, he specializes in wasting a turn by pointlessly moving his rooks back and forth one or two squares on the back rank, which is probably how a lot of grandpas and uncles do it while waiting for the kid to figure out what's going on), and then there is Chesster the Rat, whose skill level can be set from 1 (plays very badly on purpose) all the way up to 10 (i.e, very good).
And whenever the kid feels like testing himself, he can go up against King Black himself. The game makes a point of mentioning that King Black *can* be beat, so I don't know how powerful a chess engine they have running there, if it's Fritz itself or some toned-down kids' version.
My two quibbles with the game, now that I've actually learned how to play chess, is, first, that I can't find any way for you to play Black. The characters of Chesster, King Kaleidoscope, and King Black seems to have permanent dibs on it, and you seem to be permanently given White to play.
So he'll need to branch out eventually into playing Black, but he can do that with you.
My second quibble is that after checkmate is reached, it doesn't leave the screen up so you can sit there and study it to figure out how it happened--it pauses a few moments while the winning king's square lights up, and then it takes you directly back to the tournament stand.
So if he's going to want to analyze his games, I suggest that you get him started on chess notation procedures right away, because once it's checkmate, the game is gone forever.
Oh, and the "Fritz" of the title doesn't refer to the chess engine--in the game's storyline, Fritz's dad goes off on vacation and leaves Fritz alone with the kingdom, and then King Black challenges him to a duel. So you are Fritz, and you have to learn to play chess in order to save the kingdom. So it's nicely designed to have short-term and long-term goals.
And, when you're playing a game with any of your opponents, you have a choice of two chess sets. You can choose between regulation Staunton pieces, or little cartoon characters. The Kaleidoscopes are a real hoot, and the King Blacks are appropriately evil-looking.
And you can choose between "commentary" and "no commentary" while you're playing. It's helpful at the beginning to have Chesster tell you *why* you can't put your knight there...
It's just a really nifty game, overall.
The full title is "Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster". I bought mine at Best Buy, so it's not like it's some obscure game only available online.
Showing him/her all the moves at once is too much. Start with the pawns. Set up the pawns and explain how they move. Whoever reaches the last rank first wins. Later, add the other pieces. You can start off with three pawns against three. It's not as simple as it looks and anybody can learn something from these elementary games. Having a five year old swallow all that information about the complete chess game can be daunting.
Been trying to teach this little boy since he was 5.He's seven now,and still can't play proper(yes,I did a poor job).I just can't make him understand that you can NOT put a queen on top of a rook,it does NOT become a special,magical piece,you can NOT put it anywhere you like in the enemy camp,and it does NOT explode and kill all the enemy pieces.He knows the way the pieces move,and how they capture.He also knows the objective is to checkmate the king.He just lacks the patience to listen to any explanation longer than 20 seconds,and always wants to play according to his own rules.
It's driving me nuts!
I bought him lego chess,he loves it,but it doesn't really teach him anything either.Maybe I'd have to try fritz and chesster,as suggested here....
Well, I have a 2 years old kid and he already recognizes the knight, the pawn, the Bishop and the Rook (I haven't told him about King and Queen because they look alike on my set, besides, as far as he's learning while I'm playing chess with my friends, the Kings and usually the Queens are on board). I think I'll show him someday how the Bishop and the Rook moves, then the Queen, and see what to do next. The idea (as always with teaching him something) will be "learn as much as you want to learn, I won't push you", after all he seems to be too smart already.
And then, when he knows all the moves, I believe he'll just watch me playing with my friends, and, if it will be possible for him to resist the temptation to put extra pieces on the board, he'll learn many things just from watching. (Right now he sometimes makes very interesting turns in play, putting some knight or pawn in very unexpected places, which we sometimes allow.)