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1 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
Great Trainer for New Chess Player, 2006-08-19
Our 7-year old loves this program and is learning chess the fast, fun and easy way.
17 of 21 customers found the following review helpful:
 Disappointing chess product, 2006-07-13
I was extremely disappointed with this chess software. With my newest PC I bought this year, the program is buggy when it comes to sound and music, which they do acknowledge in their manual.
The product also lacks knowledge of what keeps a child's interest. For an adult or child, the dialog and some exercises were lengthy, and uninteresting.
There were a couple of fun exercises, but really not worth the price as a whole.
If your a chess player, I suggest you teach your kid yourself, or
find another chess program.
There's got to be something better than this.
10 of 15 customers found the following review helpful:
 Review from EdutainingKids.com, 2006-06-14
Children's software really needed a title like this one. Learn to Play Chess with Fritz and Chesster is a tad slow-moving at times, but its system is quite effective and the story very charming. Slowly but surely, kids learn the basics of the game of chess as they follow Fritz and his cousin Bianca through the castle grounds. The story is that Fritz's parents, the King and Queen, have decided to take a vacation, leaving Fritz and Bianca as stand-in royalty. The conniving King Black jumps on the opportunity to challenge the "king" to a duel--a chess duel! Fritz will need to brush up on his chess skills before he takes up the challenge, and that's where kids step in.
As Fritz and Bianca make their way through the kingdom toward the Intelligym, they encounter a series of mini-games that help acquaint players with simple moves and strategies involved in the game. For example, the acceptable moves of the king piece are compared to sumo wrestlers!
Once they arrive at the Intelligym, kids begin a series of interactive lessons before they can "duel" with King Black. Piece by piece, kids learn acceptable moves and plays, and they practice what they learn.
What sets this title apart is its story line. Children don't just jump in and learn chess. Instead, they follow an animated adventure. Also, the mini-games and lessons are strong and, oftentimes, quite clever. Playing chess requires a fair amount of patience, and it exercises logical thinking skills. Kids need to plan ahead as they play. This game offers kids opportunities to pick up the basics as well as a few strategies that will help them along the way.
10 of 14 customers found the following review helpful:
I'm impressed, 2006-06-13
I have one child on the autism spectrum, and one with ADHD. They were 7 when they got this, and they did indeed learn to play chess. It looks confusing and disorganized to me, as an adult, but it reached my special needs children and taught them. Now they play us. I would recommend it ias a gift also.
10 of 14 customers found the following review helpful:
Excellent for all ages of kids, 2006-04-24
This is an excellent chess tutorial for all ages of kids. It works as a game, a story, and as a chess lesson.
The really nice part about it is the order of presentation of the material, it combines how the pieces move with what they can do. A more natural choice would be to separate them (e.g., here's how a bishop moves, then later, here's how a bishop can checkmate), but the combination of the two gives kids a concrete goal, rather than rote memorization.
Those reviews that say "What do these arcade games have to do with chess?" have not played far enough into the game, because only when you get to the Intelligym, at the end of the path, does the program make the direct connection between the arcade games and chess then.
My 4 year old is entranced with it, and is now seeing three move checkmates on the board.
My only complaint with the program is that when someone does something incorrect, the criticism can be a bit too blunt, rather than encouraging, but it only makes my son more determined to get it right the next time.
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