Chess for Kids. Engaging Activities for Beginners

Do you want your child to learn how to play chess? The interest in this ancient game remains strong to this day. After all, chess activities develop thinking and logic, teach discipline and perseverance. Young chess players get used to... thinking, making decisions independently, working towards results, and not getting discouraged by failures. It has been experimentally confirmed that children involved in the world of chess perform better in school. With our book, you will take your first steps: learn the basic rules, pieces, methods of attack and defense, and types of simple checkmates. It is very informative and will allow you to quickly gain basic knowledge. Each section includes tasks to reinforce the material and answers to them. The topics almost coincide with the curriculum for elementary school (zero and first grade), successfully tested by the author in Moscow public schools. It is very important for the child to find the activities interesting – for this, the book includes intriguing facts about chess and great chess players and their games, riddles, and proverbs. For parents, recommendations are provided in the introduction, as well as additional tips throughout the book in the section "Tips for Parents" about what to pay attention to when studying particularly important topics.