How to play Chess with your Kids

Learn the technique for playing chess with your children quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules.

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When playing chess with really young people, like your children, here is something you can do to handicap yourself to get down to an even playing field so that both you and your child can play at maximum capacity. During the setup of the game, only place out your pawns and king while your child places out all the pieces. You must now play the game with only those pieces. Once your child can beat you with that setup, then you slowly add in pieces with higher values. For example, the next game you add in a knight, then the next game: a bishop, and so on; ending with the queen as the last piece. This can be a great way to keep the game challenging for you as the adult while also giving the child a fighting chance. Not to mention the satisfaction they get when you place the queen on the board because their skill now matches or exceeds that of your own.

[engr]

This could be also a game for GMs on how to play chess with normal chess players.

[garyfleming]

1. King & Pawns Game
2. Add knights
3. Add bishops
4. Add rooks
5. Normal Game

[PRIMEVAL]

My grandpa: plays with me chess normally until I was getting close to beating him. Then never accepts my challenge for 17 years now….
No cap

[lool]

the 1st level is perfect for bongcloud practice

[TheQuark]

I love that you immediately use the Bongcloud Opening.

[ihavekalashnikovyoudomath]

I was hoping this would explain how to teach kids how to play chess. Sometimes kids have a hard time remembering which pieces do what, especially the knight. So I was hoping it would explain how to go about showing them the rules

[StarshadowMelody]

**The queen is added** "The final boss has arrived."

[redrex]

I can use this with my mom… she has the chess skills of a 3 month old

[joshcraftanimates]

It’s nice how he has a warming smile on his face sometimes

[orange]

I am a child but if I were to play with my parents it would be more fair if I had a disadvantage

[zelplayz]

The thing is, I’m the child and I had to do this with my dad 😂

[grf]

Nice idea. I will try it out with my lil brother

[lorisaur]

I remember losing to my dad in a match where he didn't have the Queen. I felt so ashamed but now that I'm bigger I would love doing that with my small cousins

[drzor]

I wanna play this with my mom you know to give her a chance of winning

[honeyjuice]

i forgot to watch this one, good thing it appeared in my recommendations.

[parkertown]

My dad started with normal chess and it made it harder for me but much more satisfaction at whenever I’m close

[zlapon]

0:26
child: go easy on me
father: Bongcloud

[comm_gt]

I find a fun variation of this would be like if two players were against each other, and whoever loses gets a new piece, which continues until both players have a normal board.

[xxbongobazookaxx]

My mum just played against me normally when she was teaching me, she's not exactly great and I was beating her within a couple weeks no handicaps required, that said she is bad enough that I now place a timer handicap on myself playing against her now, giving myself the rule that I'll play whatever comes into my head by the time she makes her move (she moves very slowly so that's not really a major limitation)

[illiil]

Plot Twist : the child was Beth Harmon