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Good software
3
Rating: 3,
Useful: 2 / 6
Date: October 21, 2005
Author: Amazon User
Nice software for kids. Not sure how much this will help their chess though. More for entertainment than chess improvement.
Absolutely Terrible
1
Rating: 1,
Useful: 1 / 5
Date: August 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User
This is, without a doubt, by far, the worse software I have ever seen. Perhaps the software had a malfunction, but there was no help key, and no means by which to go from window to another. After 2 hours, we gave up. We had to play a sumo wrestling game, a pac-man type game with a witch, but no chess. This was a chess software program and it was terrible. We never learned one thing about chess. It was ridiculous. My kids much prefer Lego chess to this.
Chess game
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User
I have been extremely happy with this product, up to all reviews that I have researched. Amazon has maintained it's expected high standard!
Great program
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 23, 2008
Author: Amazon User
My kids are learning chess, and this program does a great job of teaching them basic principles in a way that is accessible and easy to understand. They love it.
my eight year old is now a chess master
5
Rating: 5,
Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 21, 2008
Author: Amazon User
I taught my son the basics of chess at 5 and he totally took to it, but I'm not a particularly good player, so I couldn't help him improve his game. So we bought him this software and it did just what we wanted: took him from a beginner with a solid grasp of the mechanics (moves and rules) to an intermediate with an understanding of strategy.
He now understands opening moves, developing the pieces, controlling the center of the board, protecting his king, when to sacrifice pieces and when not to, and end game basics.
Sure, some of the storylines are goofy and some of the modules are really just video games that make a minor point, but those things kept him interested in a way a dry, straight-forward walk through would not have.
We found this software to be a great benefit to our chess loving son (now 8 and can beat all his classmates) so we bought the first game (F&C #1) for his younger brother to learn the mechanics.
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