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How to help a kid develop his Chess skill
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Hi bhoopalan--unless your student has the last name Nakamura, he's going to lose many times throughout his childhood. You need to endow him with the emotional maturity to accept losses before anything else. Do this by showing positions and games that you yourself lost, then explaining why they were exciting or contributed to overall improvement. Relate it to popular sports figures, the Olympics, or other situations where someone perseveres at an activity due to enjoyment rather than winning every time.
Do you want chess lessons, or parenting lessons. ALL 6 yr olds get angry when they lose at ANYTHING.
I'm training my nephew in endgames. In actual games I let him take back moves if they allow me to win a piece or mate until a certain point, then I take the pieces to show the consequences of being careless.
I'm playing with my older kids (6-10). I point things out about multiple pieces lining up on a position, too much agression with the queen, etc.
I'd still like some tips on teaching them better.
I do sometimes turn the tables for them. After they've lost a bunch of pieces they get to switch sides and play the winning position. Other times, I let them take back moves. And I also show them games I've lost.
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
Do you want chess lessons, or parenting lessons. ALL 6 yr olds get angry when they lose at ANYTHING.
That's correct. May be I have to rephrase the question. All I'm worried about is how to train him when he has such an anger. As someone said, he's gonna lose a plenty of games and what would he do after continuos loss? At my initial stage I kept losing which trigerred me to find ways to revenge those who defeated me. But he seems to be different.
All I actually wanted is that I found many books on teaching chess to kids. I want to know if any such book would help my situation considering my nephew is not a newbie to his age.
I'm talking about a kid of age 6 who could play with me and amaze me. (I'm in my 1300s consistently as per Chess.com ratings). He doesn't win me but he's still great for his age.
I take pride in teaching the basics of Chess to him. But when I see the way he plays Chess now, I want to take this to a whole new level. I believe he's got the gift.
Before taking him to Chess classes, I still want to fine tune his skill. He gets angry easily when he's losing. How can I help him improve his skill? Any suggestion?