I don't like chess - I barely even know how the pieces move. But both of my kids will be in schools that offer this as an extracurricular next year and they attended chess camp two summers ago. So I've been encouraging them to use the chessmaster 9000 game we have.
Last night I decided to check it out and watched my 9 y.o. play a game. He went really quick and even I thought he wasn't very good. The game was matching him up with a player with a 500-ish rating. Then my other son got logged in and he was matched with a player with a 1500-something rating. But then we got distracted and he didn't play but my huisband has told me that he doesn;t pay much attention either.
My question is - is 1500+ good for a 7 year-old? Or is the game not reliable or using a different scale? I did a few quick searches because the difference seemed so large, but I'm not knowledgeable enough to work through the info. I figured someone here would know off the top of their head. Is this pretty good?
