Maybe try:
Logical Chess: Move by Move by Irving Chernev (1957)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104437/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/logichess.pdf
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1948)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Thank you, I will check these out.
try the easy tactics Page
Thank you!
The links are to reviews. If you are having trouble with them, it mught help to use a computer.
Give him coordinates, say e5 and ask him to name the color. If he says dark, he is learning the board. Very important and fun for kids, especially doing it with a parent..
5+5 is even. Therefore, dark.
Oh, cool idea about learning the board. We’ll definitely try that, thanks!
Welcome. Idea of Lasker, the first to suggest its importance.
Check out the following: Chesskid.com: https://www.chesskid.com/ . ChessKIDS Academy: http://www.chesskids.me.uk/kidzone/index1.shtml . Chess Legends Trump Card Game: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chess-Trumps-Historic-suitable-Children/dp/B07KPNDFZ1 . Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster 2 is a fun chess learning game. For a phone app, Play Magnus scales well. The maze book (out of print) "Checkmate at Chess City" was great fun with my boys. Have fun!
My 4.5 year old is on a chess kick recently and I’m looking for fun apps, books, etc to do with him. Any suggestions? I’m a beginner myself (learned how the pieces move as a young kid and never advanced beyond that), so we’ve been having fun learning together. He’s a little young for a full game, but a kid in his pre-K class taught him how the pieces move and ever since he’s obsessed. We have a deck of children’s chess cards that we use when we play together, to simplify things a bit (basically draw a card and you get to move the type of piece shown on the card). We also have a book ‘100 Easy Checkmates’ that he uses to set up puzzles on his board, and he’s gotten pretty good at solving them and reading the board coordinates. He also likes to do puzzles and tutorials on the ChessPro app and other websites with me. Looking for fun ideas to encourage his interest (and mine!). TIA