Thu, 18 Oct 2007
New Chess Set
His school has a chess club and even the 1st graders are encouraged to come.
It's been pretty exciting seeing him learn and progress so I ordered
this simple chess set from Chess USA. The pieces are plastic and the board
is vinyl and felt but it's a great little set to learn and practice with.
If you are running Linux and the KDE interface, there is a graphical chess board called Knights. You can use this to play other people over the Internet (at FICS for example) or use a chess engine as an opponent. One such engine is called Fruit and it works very will with Knights. So there is no need to purchase a computer chess game or software if you are running Linux. And some of these will even work on Windoze.
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