Kids catch on quickly especially when
Kids catch on quickly especially when the teacher starts killing/taking their main players. Stress helps them learn.
5. Emphasize the power of each player. Example: “The queen is very powerful. She can go anywhere, in any direction and sweep across the board, but only the Knight can jump over others. The pawn is a poor peasant/farmer, a foot soldier. He is fed poorly, can’t move quickly, has little of no armour, poor weapons, no horse and is easily killed.
6. I show kids my own main strategy, which is to move a pawn and get the queen out quickly across the board (with the bishops) and to attack, attach, attack. Kids soon see that this often works well.
7. I show the kids that chess can be played solo, by changing seats, or by turning the board around (no ESL learning in this, however), and with an internet partner (little ESL value).
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