Kids and online chess?

If you have kids or know kids, do they play online chess?  Is there a good site for online chess for kids?

I don't have kids, but have you checked xxxxxxxx? That's xxxxxxx's kid site. I think they can play games without being able to chat or anything like that, so it's a safer environment for kids than most places.

Chess.com.

It would be great if chess.com allowed you to create sub-accounts for your children over which you had very granular control over what aspects of the site they accessed.  A workaround to this might be a class of ID that was "pre-sanitized" in terms of what it could access and was generally for use in a "' area" of the site where young aspiring masters could gather and play amongst themselves however I think that the necessary moderation of such a sub-site would be a lot of work.

yeah would be great if chess.com set it up for a parent could make an account for their child and it would automaticallly disables the chats and blocks access to the forums. and the rest of the ways ppl may send messages like notes and so on.

In my HUMBLE opinion, I would BAN my younger kids (if I had any) from playing online chess.

First off, I have been playing online chess for over a DECADE and there are positively no benefits to it. First, if your child is young, they will most definitely RUIN their game by playing "mouse-racing" games. Most online games are under 5 minutes long....translation: they will not form the necessary habit of THINKING and TRAINING their brain to win chess, but rather rely on piece trading speed to win. Bottom line: they will be training themselves to play inferiorly.

Second off, the younger children will be exposed to countless SORE LOSERS who will will badmouth them at every turn. There is SO MUCH anger amongst the online chess crowd. Better to stay away.

Finally, cheating has such a strong foothold in online chess, it is so corrupt, so infested, that it is nigh impossible to play legit players for too long before the EVIL program users find you.

This is just my opinion.

Would 16 be concidered young? im 16 and have enjoyed playing online chess - and not just 5 minute games. Badmouthing doesn't bother me either.

It probably doesn't. I'm 15 and I don't exactly feel like I'm in danger lol.

But in all seriousness I see no reason not to recomend chess.com for kids too. And what time control they play is completely up to them. Who cares about a couple of sore losers (out of 100 maybe, in fact probably even less than that in my experience)? Maybe in real life cursing would hurt but online who cares?

The 17 y/o concurs. Sore losers are just funny to laugh at.

Elubas you're fifteen?

:O

Yeah

i don't care about badmouths and sore losers- people need to understand how school is these days

and i'm twelve, turning thirteen in exactly 30 days: do i count as a "younger" child

Yo yo MA!.

What's with my earlier post in this thread being censored? I'm not allowed to recommend a site where young children can play without chat or forums, so their parents don't have to worry about badmouthing or other negative social interactions? Until chess.com offers such features to allow parents of younger children to play here in a "safe" environment, that isn't your competition. They're offering a completely different service than you do.

--Fromper, unhappy at being censored here - I never knew the admins here were so self centered and unhelpful

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Was a Seinfeld reference :P

Uh oooohhh.

I'm going to be 13 in a week.

But I'm enjoying myself here.

Sometimes, children need experience in the real world, so that when they grow up, they would not be pushed and probed around.