Exactly. This is how I learned to read without any adult forcing me. My parents bought children's picture books, but they never read them to me or forced me to read them. I eventually out of boredom decided to try and apply what I knew about the alphabet onto the words in the book and asked my parents what some of the words meant, and lo and behold, I was one of the best readers in pre-school. Edit: btw, if your child hates normal picture books and finds them boring, consider comic books instead. Seriously. All my cousins told me that they hated reading, but they learned to read from those old Archie comics.

yeah, fine, so long as they are really interested and don't disturb the game.

Nah...treat chess just like u would reading and simple math. It's that important. Critical thinking, calculation and pattern recognition skills greatly improve. Just make it super FUN! Hell Armenia requires it in their schools nationwide. The kids in Armenia view chess as the school's coolest subject. In America, kids somehow learn that chess is a negative uncool thing.

dont forget the experience how it feels to have a pawn shoved up ur nose.

@@mysticaldevotion863 they shouldn’t have done a dope test for the world champ match, they should’ve x-ray’d Magnus for spare pawns

So that’s why my bishop is green…

That means levy did it too and was rushed to the ER to get the queen removed from his nose

He actually might have shove it up his opponents' but- *coughs coughs* that's why he is winning so much

"What I'd much rather see is kids dragging their parents to the club!" Srsly an amazing mindset to have as a parent

youre an awesome father, great mind set, good luck with getting your child interested :)

The sort of "puzzles" in lichess's "learn chess basics" are a very age appropriate way to teach how the pieces move. Questions like "which piece can the queen take?" or "can you take all the pieces?" make for a fun game on their own.

It’s better than leaving the children alone or ignoring them most of the time soooo it’s not that terrible

@@axelcastillo7432 I simply put off my chess playing (or switched to online chess) so I could spend quality time with with my kids until they were older.

I agree, that’s how I got to play chess for the first time.

Fun fact: This is how the legendary Paul Morphy developed interest in chess, by watching his father and uncle play.

That's a good wisdom

i agree i wish my parents taught me coding, piano, chess, singing, proper fitness(in general). but the thing is like levy said, unless i was actually interested in that stuff i would have hated being forced to learn and not learn any of it. it's a weird problem.

@@re1n21 haha

That's why he's a successful content creator

seems like he is salty about religion tho.

Lmao

In spanish we also say to eat a piece, how curious

In Slovak our word for capturing the piece is the same as "throw out"

why would you comment that

@@josemartinfriasaguirre1591 he's hungry

@@josemartinfriasaguirre1591 he's hungry for some chess pieces

I'm hungry too, we're getting pizza for dinner!

@@foxygamerxdyt7356 lucky you have pizza in your place

The Bible is close enough

He’s literally 2500. Totally mediocre

Also you liked your own comment

​@@imcd6885 His peak is 2350 dumass. He is nowhere close to 2500. Look at other 2350 players , are they as big as him? He got way more than he deserves by brown nosing hikaru. Lmao his entire career is a joke.

@@TheArchit1 his peak is 2421 actually

Why?

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