Contains one hundred chess positions to solve, ranging from very easy to incredibly difficult. Every puzzle is preceded by an instructive example illustrating a pattern.

This accessible how-to guide for parents and teachers on the best way to teach chess to children, from international chess expert Richard James, is linked to both his bestselling book, Chess for Kids, and his website chessKIDS academy. James, who taught grandmasters Luke McShane and Jonathan Rowson, shows how learning chess is interesting and fun. It can also help children develop life skills, such as decision-making and social skills, and be a springboard to other subjects in the school curriculum, such as maths, science, history and even languages. In an easy-to-follow, fun way, James explains how to structure short lessons with worksheets and other activities to introduce the chess pieces, chess notation and chess-board dynamics - so that children can understand the thinking behind the moves and start playing and enjoying this fascinating game.

Book 1 There are exalted and higher purposes to parenting. Why is the Creation interested in partnering with you in parenting and in your child? What is routine parenting? What is non- existing parenting? How to avoid negative parenting, hyper parenting or blind parenting? How not to feel the stress of parenting? What is special about 21st century parenting? Become the conscious and mindful parents. All explained wonderfully. There are plenty of real-life examples. Book is filled with stories which make you understand spiritual and practical aspects of parenting and motivate yourself to take the higher path of parenting. There is a lot of parenting the parent! Book 2 This is for parents as well as for children of 12 and beyond. The parents can break the book by simply splitting the book at the end of book 1 and lo and behold! The book 2 of 130 pages is ready for children. If you already have children who are beyond 12 years, you can spiral bind book 2 separately and give it to them. There is a separate cover page for book Exclusive and Unmissables in these 2 in 1 Book: 1. Exclusive 7 stages of parenting 2. 9 point charter of parents’ daily blessings for children. The best gift you can give your children is to constantly bless them. Instead of getting very anxious with some concern, just keep BLESSING them. You will not even be aware how powerful your blessings can be. They truly work wonders and miracles happen 3. Exclusive meditation tips for children 4. Develop 3D memory with few minutes daily practice 5. Wonderful sets of practical and doable tips for parents and separately for children 6. Special 15 point attributes for building the profile of the child 7. Two separate list of more than hundred tips to empower parents and children 8. Food for soul – 24 soul stirring and motivational bed-time stories

Learn about chess and how to play the game, enter competitions, and meet the pros. Explore the history of chess and peer into the future of one of the world's most popular games. Chess will give you a behind-the-scenes look at a great game, with features that include: a glossary, index, and bibliography for further reading.

Both a fascinating challenge and great training tool, these 303 awesome tactic puzzles are not only super fun to solve but great for beginners, advanced beginners, and intermediate players to use as tools to win chess games. Tactics are presented in order of difficulty so that players can advance from the simple to the complex positions. Finding the right answer will bring about a forced checkmate or a winning material superiority. Puzzles cover the gamut from straightforward moves right up to tricky traps. A book for chess winners! table { }tr { }col { }br { }td { padding: 0px; color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl66 { font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }

Chess is not only a complicated game adults enjoy but also great fun for young children. There are many advantages of playing chess from a young age. Regardless of the child's age, chess develops concentration, increases patience and positively affects the intellectual and emotional development of the child. Chess is a game that develops perceptiveness, imagination and the ability to focus on a specific task. The development of the brain’s left hemisphere which is responsible for logical thinking takes place through counting combinations, whereas the development of the right hemisphere, which is responsible for creative thinking, occurs by arranging new plans and finding new non-standard moves in different positions. The diagrams in the book have been arranged in order from the easiest to the most difficult. At the beginning the child is told which piece to capture, for example a bishop. Then a few chapters later we can slightly raise the level and in chapter 5 the child is asked to capture a piece but without a hint of which one specifically. Because children between the age of 5-6 often do not see check, a full chapter is devoted to defending the king from being placed in check. One chapter is devoted to finding the checkmate in one move. I have also prepared a chapter dedicated to finding a fork and the goal is to find a move other than capturing. At the end of each chapter there is a friendly "chess critter" which is a reward for the child for correctly solving the tasks from the chapter. You can print a copy of the critter and let your child colour it the way they like. When your child gets a "chess critter" as a prize – it will make them happy and they will treat chess as fun instead of a very complicated and tiring task. The Author, Maksim Aksanov, wrote this book with the help of his 6 year old daughter. Through working with her, he could see which elements of the game are the most difficult for a child. He prepared a series of diagrams that allow a child to develop smoothly and learn this very difficult game. The basic problem that most or even all children have to face is perceptiveness. There are many different chess pieces and when they all come into play it can be confusing and cause the child to lose their concentration. Most often, children make mistakes such as they don't see a check, they don’t see the possibility of capturing a piece or they don't notice a checkmate in one move. One thing your child will appreciate most is that playing chess is also great fun and we all want our children to develop through play.

Learn to play chess—and win—with this complete guide for kids ages 8 to 12 Check it out: Playing chess is tons of fun...and it can help make you smarter, too! How to Play Chess for Kids teaches you everything you need to know to start—even if you've never played before. First get the hang of moving each piece, understand the rules, then find out how to capture pieces and win. In this book of chess for kids, you'll try out different tactics, discover super-secret strategies, and practice thinking ahead. How to Play Chess for Kids includes: How to speak chess—Chess has its own language—learn to speak it with a guide to game notation and an easy glossary. See it, play it—Lots of diagrams make learning chess for kids easy by illustrating the moves in every example. Real-life moves—Learn from the best with exciting excerpts from championship games by chess masters throughout history. You'll conquer the game of kings and queens in no time with How to Play Chess for Kids!

"Many parents work more hours outside of the home and their lives are crowded with more obligations than ever before; many children spend their evenings and weekends trying out for all-star teams, traveling to regional and national tournaments, and eating dinner in the car while being shuttled between activities. In this vivid ethnography, based on almost 200 interviews with parents, children, coaches and teachers, Hilary Levey Friedman probes the increase in children's participation in activities outside of the home, structured and monitored by their parents, when family time is so scarce. As the parental "second shift" continues to grow, alongside it a second shift for children has emerged--especially among the middle- and upper-middle classes--which is suffused with competition rather than mere participation. What motivates these particular parents to get their children involved in competitive activities? Parents' primary concern is their children's access to high quality educational credentials--the biggest bottleneck standing in the way of, or facilitating entry into, membership in the upper-middle class. Competitive activities, like sports and the arts, are seen as the essential proving ground that will clear their children's paths to the Ivy League or other similar institutions by helping them to develop a competitive habitus. This belief, motivated both by reality and by perception, and shaped by gender and class, affects how parents envision their children's futures; it also shapes the structure of children's daily lives, what the children themselves think about their lives, and the competitive landscapes of the activities themselves"--

In this easy-to-use reference, over 1600 websites have been carefully researched and selected with educational and recreational needs in mind. Sorted into thirty categories including all National Curriculum subjects, the book provides brief descriptions of each website and the resources you can expect to find there. Some of the wide-ranging categories include art, attractions, careers and students, environment, film, TV and radio, reference and revision. The format is unique and simple, making this a perfect resource for young people, parents and teachers and an excellent support tool for schools and libraries.