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Post by Townley »

My teenage niece is getting solid at chess, but I can still beat her handily. So we came up with a fun handicap the last few times we’ve played:

Every third turn, my four year old daughter gets to move for me. She doesn’t know the rules so she chooses a piece and we give her the full rundown of options where that piece can legally move. Neither of us can influence her choice, but there’s some degree of psychological play allowed for everyone’s entertainment

It’s been unexpectedly rich and fun for everyone involved:

- My daughter is slowly learning the game and likes hamming up the choice

- I exercise a different part of my brain around guarding eventualities and conservative movements

- Pure cackles of joy and glee from my niece whenever my daughter reaches for the queen

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Post by sockbot »

Waterluvian wrote: post #13

I love this concept of taking a game, making one rule change, and suddenly the game has a whole new feeling to it. This may be old news for some but I just discovered this rule that makes tic tac toe incredibly fun to play with my kids: only the last three moves of each player stay on the board.

You might be interested in 960 chess a.k.a Fischer random a.k.a. freestyle chess. There is a weekly tournament on Fridays at chess.com if you want an intro.

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Post by bpev »

Townley wrote: post #21

My teenage niece is getting solid at chess, but I can still beat her handily. So we came up with a fun handicap the last few times we’ve played: Every third turn, my four year old daughter gets to move for me. She doesn’t know the rules so she chooses a piece and we give her the full rundown of options where that piece can legally move. Neither of us can influence her choice, but there’s some degree of psychological…

tfw "defensive play" is actually just blocking your own pieces on purpose

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Post by ryannevius »

Townley wrote: post #21

My teenage niece is getting solid at chess, but I can still beat her handily. So we came up with a fun handicap the last few times we’ve played: Every third turn, my four year old daughter gets to move for me. She doesn’t know the rules so she chooses a piece and we give her the full rundown of options where that piece can legally move. Neither of us can influence her choice, but there’s some degree of psychological…

This reminds me a bit of Hand and Brain [1], another fun variant with kids. We usually switch to normal chess after a predetermined number of moves.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_and_brain

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Post by jarofgreen »

ryannevius wrote: post #27
Townley wrote: post #21

My teenage niece is getting solid at chess, but I can still beat her handily. So we came up with a fun handicap the last few times we’ve played: Every third turn, my four year old daughter gets to move for me. She doesn’t know the rules so she chooses a piece and we give her the full rundown of options where that piece can legally move. Neither of us can influence her choice, but there’s some degree of psychological…

This reminds me a bit of Hand and Brain [1], another fun variant with kids. We usually switch to normal chess after a predetermined number of moves. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_and_brain

That's so close to a variant we once invented. There were 4 of us, 2 of us good at chess and 2 beginners. We played in teams, a good person and a beginner on each team. We took it in turns to move and you couldn't tell your partner ANYTHING.

As the good player, you had to come up with a good move for the board but also for what your partner might do next. Was fun!

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Post by SonOfLilit »

jarofgreen wrote: post #29
ryannevius wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This reminds me a bit of Hand and Brain [1], another fun variant with kids. We usually switch to normal chess after a predetermined number of moves. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_and_brain

That's so close to a variant we once invented. There were 4 of us, 2 of us good at chess and 2 beginners. We played in teams, a good person and a beginner on each team. We took it in turns to move and you couldn't tell your partner ANYTHING. As the good player, you had to come up with a good move for the board but also for what your partner might do next. Was fun!

In Go this is known as Rengo and is the most popular couples' tournament format.
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