CHESS FOR KIDS PowerPoint Presentation

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CHESS FOR KIDS Lesson 1

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Lesson Goals What is chess? Chess facts. Chess history. Why learn chess?

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What Is Chess? A game. A sport. An art. All of the above!

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What Is Chess? A game for only two players played on an 8x8 board where the object is to capture the opponents king.

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What Is Chess? Chess requires a lot of mental skill. It can be played indoors or outdoors. It is played on a board with 64 squares of alternating colors. There are 32 chess pieces...16 for each player.

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What Is Chess? All of a player’s pieces are the same color. The objective is to capture the king. Eliminating many of your opponent’s pieces and controlling the board are secondary objectives.

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What Is Chess? The game can end in a draw with no winner. Each piece has its own unique rules of movement. A piece is captured by landing on the space the captured piece occupies.

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Chess Facts Almost 30 nations integrate chess into their school curricula.

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Chess Facts The FIDE (International Chess Federation) is the 2nd largest sporting organization in the world!

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Chess Facts Chess is recognized as a sport in over 150 countries worldwide.

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Chess Facts Chess was played as an exhibition sport in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

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Chess Facts There are more books written on chess than any other sport.

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Chess History Chess is believed to have originated in northern India or Afghanistan before the year 600 A.D.

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Chess History As the world’s population grew and nation’s began to trade with each other chess moved to the rest of Asia and then Europe.

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Chess History Examples of early chess pieces.

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Why Learn Chess? Who Cares? Chess helps to develop higher order thinking skills. It will help you with your verbal, mathematical, and memory skills.

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Why Learn Chess? Who Cares? Because your teacher said so!

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Why Learn Chess? Who Cares? They played it in Harry Potter!

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Why Learn Chess? Who Cares? It is fun, and you might just learn something!

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Review Chess is a game for two players. The player that captures the king wins. Chess is believed to have originated from northern Indian and/or Afghanistan around the year 600 A.D.

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CHESS FOR KIDS Lesson 2

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Lesson Goals Get to know the board. Board orientation. Files and ranks.

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Chess Basics – The Board A chess board looks very much like a checker board.

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Chess Basics – The Board A chess board has 64 squares of alternating colors. 8 rows and 8 columns.

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Chess Basics – The Board The colors a chess board is made up of can be any two contrasting colors. White and Black are very common. Chess piece colors may or may not match the board colors.

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Chess Basics – The Board The board must be placed with a light square at each player’s right. “Light goes on the right.” Player 1 sits here. Player 2 sits here.

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Chess Basics – The Board The rows are called RANKS. There are 8 rows.

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Chess Basics – The Board The columns are called FILES. There are 8 columns.

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Chess Basics – The Board The ranks (rows) are numbered from 1 – 8.

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Chess Basics – The Board The files (columns) are labeled from a – h.

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Chess Basics – The Board The knight is on f5. The king is on h3. The queen is on g3.

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Chess Basics – The Board DON’T WORRY! You can play without knowing this, but you should be familiar with the terms.

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Review A chess board has 8 rows and 8 columns. Players sit on opposite sides of the board. The board must be turned so that the each player's right corner has a white (light colored) square. Rows are referred to as ranks and are labeled 1-8. Columns are referred to as files and are labeled a-h.

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CHESS FOR KIDS Lesson 3

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Lesson Goals Get to know the pieces. Rook. Bishop. Queen. King. Knight. Pawn.

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Chess Basics – The Pieces There are 32 pieces in chess (only 6 are unique). Each player gets 16 pieces of the same color. Each player starts with the same 16 pieces in the same positions.

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Chess Basics – The Pieces The 6 unique pieces are: The pawn -The rook The knight -The queen The bishop -The king

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Chess Basics – The Rook Each player starts with 2. A rook can move horizontally or vertically forwards or backwards. A rook moves until it captures or hits a piece of the same color.

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Chess Basics – The Rook

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Chess Basics – The Bishop Each player starts with 2. The bishop moves in a straight diagonal line forwards or backwards.

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Chess Basics – The Bishop

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Chess Basics – The Queen Each player starts with 1. The queen moves like the rook and bishop combined. The most powerful piece. Always starts on a square of her own color.

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Chess Basics – The Queen

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Chess Basics – The King Each player starts with 1. Moves like the queen except only one square at a time. The most valuable piece. Always starts on a square that is NOT his color.

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Chess Basics – The King

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Chess Basics – The Knight Each player starts with 2. Moves 2 squares horizontally or vertically and then one square diagonally. The ONLY piece that can jump other pieces.

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Chess Basics – The Knight

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Chess Basics – The Pawn Each player starts with 8. Least powerful piece with the most complicated rules. The pawn typically moves one square forward. There are 3 exceptions to this rule.

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Chess Basics – The Pawn A pawn may only attack diagonally. A pawn may move 2 squares forward on only its first move. There is a special capture a pawn can make called “en passant”.

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Chess Basics – The Pawn

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Review Each piece has its own unique rules of movement. The knight is the only piece that can “hop” other pieces. The queen is the most powerful. The king is the most valuable.

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CHESS FOR KIDS Lesson 4

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Lesson Goals Setting up the board. Rules, rules, rules.

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Setting Up The Board The board must be oriented so that the square in the right corner facing each player is white. The queen must be on a square of her own color. Follow the diagram below. Player 2 Player 1

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Additional Rules - General White (or light color) goes first. You capture another player’s piece by moving into the square that piece occupied. The game ends when there is a checkmate, stalemate, or a draw (more on this later). A player may resign (quit and loose) at any time. A player may propose a draw after his/her turn.

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Additional Rules – Promotion A pawn that makes it to the other side of the board may be promoted to any other piece. A queen is nearly always chosen because of its power. Yes, you can have two queens on the board at once. If a piece can be captured, a player may decide not to capture it.

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Additional Rules – Touching When a player touches one of his/her own pieces, then he/she must make a legal move with this piece, if possible. When a player touches one of his/her opponents pieces, then he/she must capture this piece if possible. When castling, the king must be the first piece touched. J’adoube – “I adjust”

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Additional Rules – En Passant This is a special capture technique for pawns and very rare. It only applies to pawns that move 2 squares on the first move. If the pawn could have been captured on the first square, the other player can capture it only on the next turn.

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Additional Rules – En Passant

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Additional Rules – Castling The king and rook can move at the same time if the following is true: The king and rook involved haven’t moved. The king is not in check before, during, or after the move. All squares between the rook and king before the castling move are empty. The king moves 2 square towards the rook, and the rook moves over the king to the next square.

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Additional Rules – Castling Black cannot castle!