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Jul 24 2008

Chess kings and queens

Category: Kids & Growing Up


Nathan loves board games, card games, video games, and ball games. It's games, games, games all the time with that boy. Paul and Nathan occasionally play chess while they wait for dinner to be ready.

Chess is popular with the boys in Nathan's class, too. Seven of them play chess during free time, and I know of at least one other student in the afternoon class who plays. According to Nathan's teacher, they follow the rules and play real games using the proper moves. She figures that by next year, they'll surpass her chess skills and knowledge.

It's hard to believe that these boys are kindergarteners! Hoping to encourage them, I'm going to suggest that the principal form a chess club next year. It'll be nice for the younger kids to have a club to participate in, since many of the extracurricular activities are for third graders and up. Maybe they can teach the big kids a few moves, too.

Still, I'm disappointed that there aren't any girls playing chess. Maybe Lucie will start a chess trend among the girls when she enters kindergarten. After all you can't play chess without the Queen!