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You and your kid will be asleep by the time you figure out what to do next. This may be the worst instructional software I ever purchased.
My seven year old is totally engrossed in this. It's all in the patterns.The animation and characters are great. Love it.By the way- there is a "Chess Complete" version that has all three games on 1 disk. The toilet smashing bishop training was pretty hysterical. #3, interestingly, is only on Amazon for Windows, but it does exist for Macs as seen in the Chess Complete product. My son freaked out when he tied Grandpa White for the lead.Chess is about practicing patterns and these patterns don't emerge much in games when kids play. It's a great learning tool because they are playing games that have more meaning in the story to learn certain basics. The voice acting great.
I taught my son to play, but he doesn't want to do drills to learn pawn combat of mating patterns. With a game like this, they get to focus on core chess patterns, as well as feel victorious when doing these drills.As an interesting fact regarding chess patterns and repetition - in memory studies, Grandmasters who are famous for recalling chess board layouts from past games did only marginally better then the general population when asked to memorize RANDOM arrangements of chess pieces on the board. Amazon doesn't list it, but I got it from the Apple Store for my Mac. As Amazon doesn't sell the complete version, I am mentioning this here.
I then bought it for another child who asked me to teach her to play chess. I first saw this product when a friend's child was using it. He really liked it. She told me, "It's really fun and I like the computer game a lot." She was working on teaching me how to play better. It's fun, it's easy, and I've learned stuff.
My kids used this to learn to play chess and became quite good too. I'd highly recommend this game.
I first checked out this CD from the public library and my son loves it.He is learning the basics while having fun, while his little sister is learning by his side.
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