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Chess is Child's Play: Teaching Techniques That Work [Hardcover]

Laura Sherman (Author), Bill Kilpatrick (Author)

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Publication Date: April 16, 2012 | Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Chess is Child's Play is a book written by parents, for parents. It is written for YOU!

Chess is one of the oldest strategy games known to man. Studies show that children who learn chess at an early age gain such valuable life skills as:

Problem-solving ability
Improved patience and focus
Enhanced imagination
Greater self-confidence.

Chess educators Laura Sherman and Bill Kilpatrick have created an easy, step-by-step method for teaching chess that parents of all skill levels can use to teach children of any age.

You don't have to know how to play chess in order to use the system. This book will teach you the game, while showing you how to teach your child to play. You will learn together.

Chess makes children smarter. Give your child an advantage in life and teach him or her to play today!

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Chess is one of the oldest strategy games known to man. Studies show that children who learn chess at an early age gain such valuable life skills as:

Problem-solving ability
Improved patience and focus
Enhanced imagination
Greater self-confidence.

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About the Author

Laura Sherman is a writer and chess coach, who lives in Florida with her husband and three children.

Bill Kilpatrick is an entrepreneur, specializing in advanced educational techniques. He lives in Southern California with his wife and four children.

Product Details

Reading level: Ages 3 and up
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Mongoose Press (April 16, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193627731X
ISBN-13: 978-1936277315
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.5 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #143,565 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Fantastic book for teaching YOU to teach your kids! April 20, 2012

By Austin

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If you want to teach your kids to play chess, this book gives a straightforward and pragmatic approach to teach you, the parent, how to teach your kids chess. It is not a book to give to your children and send them to their room with a bunch of pieces and checkered board. Rather, it offers an approach that minimizes frustration, capitalizes on the strengths of a child's mind, and delivers far more than simply learning how to play a game. It guides parents not just through the rules and how the pieces move, but in understanding how kids learn, grow, and behave in the process. As Ben Franklin put it in 1750, "The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it." Sherman and Kilpatrick give simple and meaningful instruction that can be used to teach children both the idle amusement of chess AND those valuable qualities of the mind that are so useful in the course of human life.

"Chess is Child's Play" offers a new approach and a straightforward set of tools for bonding with your kids, while teaching them a skill set that will be with them for life! Three cheers for "Chess is Child's Play" and a copy to each of my friends with young children!!

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How to teach your child chess: Part 1 of 2. May 21, 2012

By Pat from Cleveland

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Excellent book! This book will give you the tools to teach your child chess. I'm a parent who knows how to play chess but was not sure how to go about teaching my 4 yr old how to play. This book has allowed me to begin that process. It is laid out in a very logical and attractive format. Clear diagrams (for the parents only!) and easy steps to follow on how to teach your child. Also, there is a chapter on teaching tips which I have found most helpful and I heed the authors advice and refer back to it often. Also, contained within the lessons are instructive and concept-reinforcing "mini-games" which my daughter loves to play and looks forward to each time we have a lesson.

Each chapter ends with helpful tips on how to deal with any challenges that the child might have had with the lesson. So far so good with my daughter. Some lessons she is more engaged than others, but we are both having fun. Some concepts need to be repeated for them to sink in(at least with my 4yr old), but that is to be expected. I have no doubt that this book will allow me to teach her how to play chess and that she will benefit from that in numerous ways.

I look to write part two of this review upon finishing the book with my daughter.

If you are considering buying the book, buy it! I highly recommend it.

Laura and Bill, thank you for giving me the lesson plan that I needed to teach chess.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

Amazing!!! May 2, 2012

By Sergio Couto

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I've started reading the book, and I love it. I'd read two or three books for children before, but nothing to do with this. It's wonderful. My son, Danel, is 40 months old. He already knew the name of the pieces, but I didn't know how to continue teaching him. He is very nervous and it's difficoult for him to concentrate. I find very very important, specially for him, learning chess. Today I've started teaching him with the help of your book. We've starte with Chapter 4. I was very happy, because he could do all the games and exercises. I tried to continue with the rook, and, incredibly, he was very concentrated, and happy, and he wanted more and more. We only did 2-3 exercises of the Rook, but he could move them perfectly and we played some of the games. I couldn't believe. He said that he wanted to play another day. I'll tell you how it's going.
It's really worth buying it.
Regards from Spain

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