give your kids the gift of chess

chess is beautiful in many aspects, but for someone who has no clue about it, it might be hard to see how the concept of art could fit into playing “just” a board game (at least it was hard to me). I started watching games and tried to understand patterns, until I bumped into the beautiful games from the Romantic era with brave gambits and crazy openings, as well as other modern chess players with attractive attacking styles and saw how there’s levels of beauty throughout the game, moves and even the thought process behind them. it tickled my brain in a way that made me take a deep dive into the topic, taking multiple in-person and online lessons and comparing teaching styles from different parts of the world. when I learned chess I was already an experienced educator, so at the same time I learned it, I kept in my mind the goal to understand it in a way to teach it to kids or beginners, with a lot of help from my experience with classical music education.