Teaching my son basic attack and defense

whirlwind2011 · 2015-08-03T11:02:56-07:00

My five-year-old son has been into Chess since before he was two years old, and he's been playing full games against me, my wife, various engines, and on Chesskid.com since he was three. He displays considerable promise, as he can often solve mate-in-1 positions, he understands several tactics

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Aug 15, 2015

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whirlwind2011 wrote:

X_PLAYER_J_X: Do not be fooled; I strongly suspected you were joking, but making that assumption could have been disrespectful.

HA HA Sweet!

Yeah its all good. The trick is to not push them into learning it. Its to be sneaky about it lol.

You know accidently leaving out a chess book around the house. Hanging a bunch of little rooks, pawns, queens, kings, and knights over there bed.

Getting a pawn pillow. Exposing them to the chess elements.

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