Play games with her. If you don't understand chess very well yourself then trying to instruct her will probably do more harm than good.
My 5yr old is smarter than me!
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If she's smart and in the gifted section in school, she should pick up the game in seconds.
All you have to do is to teach her the rules, and some openings, then play with her.
After a while, do watch your own king get...beheaded...or trapped...
I assume you understand the rules. I'd say that's all you need -- teach her the rules (all at once, except maybe en passent, if you think that won't confuse her) and then just play a lot of games with her. Don't bother with strategy for a long time, especially if you don't understand that. Just make sure you're both enjoying it.
Nah don't teach her any openings right off the bat.
Er...if she's gifted and smart, I think she would checkmate her own father!
Maybe I'm wrong.
Just play. If she wants she can go into a chess class so the master can do some teaching
There's probably a local chess club somewhere near where you live. Take her there.
Nov 28, 2009
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I would actually recommend the Chess Mentor Basic version for you and your daughter. It can be found at www.chessmentor.com
Patzer24 wrote:
I would actually recommend the Chess Mentor Basic version for you and your daughter. It can be found at www.chessmentor.com
That has to be the lamest voice talent ever... buy Chess Mentor? yeah maybe, just let me sleep first! LOL
McRuss wrote:
I am 37 years old and have never played chess until this week!
My daughter who is 5yrs old has become very interested in chess. She is in Kindergarten but is in the talented and gifted programs at school. She is already doing 2nd grade work.
I want to help and encourage her interests. I am asking for help to learn chess myself as well as be able to teach my daughter correctly. I am open to any suggestions or direction.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Buy chess.com membership, use chess mentor, tactics trainer and watch videos together. I would recommend you set off maybe 20-30 minutes to do one of these a day then maybe try to play a game using whatever you choose to do covered.
Five years is enough to begin in chess. My father had large chess pieces that I used to play with. One of my earliest memories is around five years and he was explaining the personality of the pieces. I dont know how long until I knew how to move them. But it was soon after that according to him. And I am not an A student so maybe she will understand more.
As suggested above, just play games upon games with her. At that age, shes best off discovering strategy, tactics, and openings on her own
For what it's worth, I am married and have a two-year-old daughter. My wife refuses every attempt I make to teach her, so I am waiting for my daughter to be old enough to learn. At age five, if your daughter is willing to learn, I'd say you've got it made as a father.
Make sure to make playing chess an enjoyable experience for her, because it really is a wonderful and constructive hobby. Just setting aside some time to teach the rules and play a game or two is probably enough, and probably fun for you as well. I just wish my sisters were as excited about chess as your daughter is
Nov 28, 2009
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I’ve taught music to children K-6 for over 20 years. I now am teaching them how to play chess before school and during lunch. It’s very important that they have fun while learning a complex game. Keep it simple at first. My upper grade students enjoy blitz games the most. They love the challenge and running the other person out of time. It’s fun to watch.
To teach your daughter, I suggest that you play free computer chess. This will give you confidence in teaching correct moves, as the computer will not permit wrong ones. Your daughter needs to play with real chess pieces and will have more fun capturing Dad’s pieces. Example: Windows Vista has Chess Titans. Chess Titans has a very nice feature. When you click on a piece, all of the squares that you can move to are lighted. Also, you will learn good chess moves from the computer. Start with the absolute easiest setting in order to learn the basic moves, i.e., castling and checkmate. On a difficult setting, you may not even get a chance to castle, as the computer will not blunder.
Members, what’s the ELO rating of the chess dot com free chess computer when set to easy? It’s too difficult for a beginning player, imo.
Below is an easy opening I taught my daughter for your consideration. It will insure that the pieces are placed on good squares and each of you will enjoy an excellent chance of capturing pieces and winning. I suggest that your daughter play as Black, as she will have the first opportunity to capture a pawn. Meaning, she has the material advantage and is winning at that very second in the game. It’s very important that you adjust your playing strength as needed to give your daughter the opportunity to offer check and checkmate. This won’t work with older children, as they will know when Dad is letting them win. With my 6th grade daughter, I remove my Queen from the board. If I’m very tired, I leave the Queen be!
The Giuoco Piano with my annotation. Enjoy!
expirience is the best teacher...so whrere can he get expirience? by playing games..but be sure that she paly different people so she will encounter many openings, tactics and situations..goodluck!!
nardis wrote:
For what it's worth, I am married and have a two-year-old daughter. My wife refuses every attempt I make to teach her, so I am waiting for my daughter to be old enough to learn. At age five, if your daughter is willing to learn, I'd say you've got it made as a father.
That's too bad. When I was 2 my dad taught me the basics of checkers and when I started to beat him he decided to teach me chess. I had a lot of fun and I think he did as well. Mom was more of a Go player haha.
NotKasparov wrote:
I assume you understand the rules. I'd say that's all you need -- teach her the rules (all at once, except maybe en passent, if you think that won't confuse her) and then just play a lot of games with her. Don't bother with strategy for a long time, especially if you don't understand that. Just make sure you're both enjoying it.
Thank you, yes I do understand the rules of the game. That is all that I have been able to show her. Yesterday we played and I saw her begin to not just watch her pieces but mine as well. She took down a few of my pieces without me seeing it coming.
I asked her what she liked most about the game, she said, "having to think about all of the pieces and what they should do before the game starts." She's smarter than me! She doesn't get upset of frustrated when she loses, she just wants to play again, "Daddy, your King won't hide from me this time!" She's great!
Your comments have been very helpful, and has made me feel better about what I have done with her so far. Since her and I both know the rules now we will just enjoy playing the game until she looks for advancement and hope that she will let me win once in a while,LOL.
I am 37 years old and have never played chess until this week!
My daughter who is 5yrs old has become very interested in chess. She is in Kindergarten but is in the talented and gifted programs at school. She is already doing 2nd grade work.
I want to help and encourage her interests. I am asking for help to learn chess myself as well as be able to teach my daughter correctly. I am open to any suggestions or direction.
Thank you in advance for your help!