How to Teach your children about Checkers

My daughter was with her choir, so my son and had a couple of hours to waste Denver. We went to the Denver Public Library, and of course my son wanted to go to six, the children's library. He 's gone away.

As we walked, he got angry and his face lit up. He saw a huge stone in September Each piece was about the size of his hands. He wanted to play. Well, I did not checkers with him before, but I played reminded me that my grandfather taught me how to play checkersthis age. So, I tried.

I have only him to play by the rules. He had six years and do not have that kind of patience. I told him that the first two games were just practice games. We would play together, as I explained the rules to him. With this plan in order, and he was happy that the first two games do not "count."

What color do you want to be? "My grandfather told me that the smoke from the fire, my son is black first." And I loved this little mnemonicheard repeated for several days. Of course he wanted to be black.

Move a piece one square. You can just go diagonally. I pulled a piece diagonally to show him. Then I moved horizontally and vertically, and said: "You can not move horizontally or vertically, diagonally only, and your pieces are always square blacks."

We moved around a few pieces and then I told him that the object of the game for the other guy was catching bits and pieces are the last remainingBoard of Directors. It was a bit 'more interested. I showed him how to recognize a jump and how to take a long time.

We played together for a while 'and I have a double jump for him. Before the turn, I told him as directly in double and triple, and asked him if there are spots like that on the table. He found the double jump and took it.

I finally got a piece on the other side, 'was my new king crown. Then I showed him as a king could go back and forth.He was excited about this feature and decided to get some royalties.

Finally, I explained to him that once took his finger at a time, his move was final. So if we do not have a necessary move to keep the finger at the inspector's safety.

This was the core of the basic rules. Then we played our first real game that "counts". I had not spoken a bit 'strategy yet, but he said things like "well, can not move because you go find me here" and "if I have a lot ofKings, I should be able to win. "