Re:Chess Minigames for Enjoyable Learning [pdf]
by tromp on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:30AM
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> you can learn every single rule in about 5 minutes
That might be true for the game of Go with its much simpler rules, but for Chess I reckon it takes at least an hour for someone to absorb all rules.
Re:Chess Minigames for Enjoyable Learning [pdf]
by andytratt on Friday February 11, 2022 @09:53AM
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YES. This is the point of the book! Chess rule absorption is quite a painful, boring process for most people. It can take a very long time, especially for children and/or folks who are not intrinsically motivated but being forced to learn to indulge a family member, friend, or something.
Ideally the learning process can be both fun and high-utility, through minigames and the other activities laid out in the book! It took me 3+ weeks of multiple hour-long classes each week to get a classroom of smart 4th graders to absorb the knight movements and play Knight Battleship competently. In the end, they did enjoy it... and once they felt mastery, they wanted to learn more.
By contrast with chess you can learn every single rule in about 5 minutes, and then spend the remaining 80 years of your life exploring their depths.
Complex != deep, simple != shallow.