Chess for Kids. Engaging Activities for Beginners

Do you want your child to learn to play chess? Interest in this ancient game has not diminished 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 for 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 the help of our book, you will take the first steps: learn the basic rules, pieces, methods of attack and defense, types of simple checkmates. It is very informative and will allow you to quickly acquire basic knowledge.
Each section includes tasks to reinforce the material and answers to them. The topics almost coincide with the curriculum in elementary school (zero and first grade), which has been successfully tested by the author in Moscow public schools. It is very important for the child to be interested in studying - for this purpose, the book includes interesting facts about chess, great chess players, and their games, riddles, and proverbs.
Recommendations for parents are provided in the introduction, as well as additional tips throughout the book in the section "Tips for Parents" on what to pay attention to when studying particularly important topics.