So Alex grabbed my iPad, as he often does, and this time I happened to be looking at a chess program at the time. So he decided to play. He didn’t know the rules or the objective, but if he tapped a piece, it showed the legal moves it could make. So he played a game.
[Date “2014.04.07”]
[White “Alex Minter”]
[Black “tChess Pro (iPad) – Difficulty 565”]
[Result “0-1”]
[TimeControl “300”]
1. e4 d5 2. e5 e6 3. f4 Bd7 4. f5 exf5 5. g4 f4 6. g5 Qxg5 7. Nh3 Qd8 8. Bg2 d4
9. Ng5 Nc6 10. Nh3 Nxe5 11. Ng1 Bc5 12. Ne2 f5 13. Nec3 dxc3 14. Bxb7 cxb2 15.
Be4 Qh4+ 16. Kf1 Qf2# 0-1
Obviously he lost. But hey! Next time we’ll start explaining what you are actually supposed to try to do and such. :-)
Oh, it’s time to teach him. He is a sponge right now. I taught Parker how to play the summer after he turned four and he was beating everybody by the end of the summer.
I taught him on a real “tangible” chess board though.
uh oh! Chess master grooming – if it moved – he will be curious why – he’ll learn early!
So far he has shown little patience for learning the actual rules of any physical game, let alone board games. (He is a master of figuring out how iPad games work.). Perhaps we will try this weekend.
It’s just amazing to me how “little” minds can be hard wired for electronics so easily and us “older” minds just don’t take to it so good.
er…well that is.
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He’s played iPhone games since he was a few months old. When you start early, it is easy! :-)
@RB: We’ll see. I’ll certainly give him a chance to learn the rules. :-)
I guess so.
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