🧑‍🤝‍🧑 / 🏡 I appreciate good teachers. And what I learned seeing someone teach the game of Chess impressed the heck out of me.

[TerryP]

I know it isn't true. But, it's a great tool if ever needed.

I learned how to play chess in an unusual way. A friend of mine, David, introduced me to the game. In the first week I'd bought a cheap chess set and checked out a book of past chess games from the library in Memphis. I knew the pieces and how they moved; the book introduced me to strategies.

How do you teach someone how the pieces move? Hearing this explained in this manner shocked me in its simplicity.

A Knight is represented by a horse. A horse has two ears and a snout. There's two squares one way, one perpendicular.
A Rook has merlons (notches) which indicated rank and file for movement. Four directions: left or right along with up and down the file.
A Queen often has eight indentations on her crown: she moves in all eight directions.

Now, look at the bishop. The slit? Diagonal movement.

If you play...it's a bit crazy when you think about it, right?

 

[alabama mike]

I am teaching a youngster to play the game of Chess. He is a 12 year old former student in my building. RS has been in group homes for the past 5 years bc he has no family and no one has fostered him yet. The latest facility is very structured, he has daily chores, meets with a counselor twice a weekand works one on one with a teacher and aide. He is making remarkable progress with the game and in his development of academic and personal goals. Mrs. Bama and I will bring him to our house for some short, day visits and then hopefully, in the future, he will be able to stay overnight. He has to reach a specific level in the program to be able to do that. He has only been at this new facility since early Nov.

 

[TerryP]

I am teaching a youngster to play the game of Chess. He is a 12 year old former student in my building. RS has been in group homes for the past 5 years bc he has no family and no one has fostered him yet. The latest facility is very structured, he has daily chores, meets with a counselor twice a weekand works one on one with a teacher and aide. He is making remarkable progress with the game and in his development of academic and personal goals.

I can see the game offering some good "life lesson" opportunities. Decision making, ya know? Am I leaving myself vunerable?

 

[alabama mike]

I can see the game offering some good "life lesson" opportunities. Decision making, ya know? Am I leaving myself vunerable?

Chess is a GREAT game to teach some of those life lessons!!! He is developing thinking skills and challenges (via moves on the board). We are also playing some card games to work on his Math skills. He is learning skills as we play the games.

 

[footballer]

I am teaching a youngster to play the game of Chess. He is a 12 year old former student in my building. RS has been in group homes for the past 5 years bc he has no family and no one has fostered him yet. The latest facility is very structured, he has daily chores, meets with a counselor twice a weekand works one on one with a teacher and aide. He is making remarkable progress with the game and in his development of academic and personal goals. Mrs. Bama and I will bring him to our house for some short, day visits and then hopefully, in the future, he will be able to stay overnight. He has to reach a specific level in the program to be able to do that. He has only been at this new facility since early Nov.

Very commendable Mike.

I think I learned my life lessons playing Old Maid and Go Fish .

 

[alabama mike]

I can see the game offering some good "life lesson" opportunities. Decision making, ya know? Am I leaving myself vunerable?

Very commendable Mike.

I think I learned my life lessons playing Old Maid and Go Fish .

I need to find some type of game that works on his reading skills. The young man reads at a 2nd grade level. I am going to use K-2 sight words this Sunday during my visit.

 

[TerryP]

I need to find some type of game that works on his reading skills.

Word recognition? Spelling? Pronunciations? Tough one there, Mike.