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Interesting topic!

This summer I tried to get DD5 interested in chess. She learned very quickly the names and positions of the figures and some of the movements.

Strategy? what's this? I do not have any.

Anyway, after the summer we have not played because with DS (meine kleine tornado) it is impossible to play chess, unless you want to try how high the pieces can fly, or you want to spend your time looking where he could have stuffed the pieces... but that's another story...
It does not help that I do not know to play chess. And DH hates it.

I checked on the game of Fritz and there is one for the Nintendo DS. There is even a Spanish version
I think I am going to get it.

DD6 asked her grandfather to teach her to play checkers 2 summers ago and after 2 games she won by a mile. I told my dad he didn't have to let her win, she'd be ok. He replied - let her - I'm teaching her chess tomorrow so I might have a better chance of winning for a bit longer
She has not managed to beat him yet, but has gotten very close.

Our elementary school had a chess club and my daughter was in it for Kinder and first and loved it.

We chose to begin Math Pentathlon after that and that was wonderful. Many states have tournaments and it is for K-7. There are five games per division and the books teach the strategies. There are many rules and the games get quite complex. I was a coach for this for several years and I highly recommend it. They have a website.