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Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play
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- A fun way for children to learn to play chess
- Over 20 mini games and puzzles
- Play simplified and full chess games against the dinosaurs
- Improve IQ scores. Increase concentration. Develops critical thinking skills
- Challenges gifted children. Helps to develop mental and abstract thinking in children
Product DescriptionSign up to Professor MacDinosaur’s chess class. You will grow from a hatchling, fresh from the egg, to a huge dinosaur ready to take on the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
The action takes you through different parts of the dinosaur’s world from jungles to forests. Here you learn the chess skills thet will help you grow enough to defeat the other dinosaurs in battle.
* A fun way for children to learn to play chess
* Over 20 mini games and puzzles
* Play simplified and full. . . More >>
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September 29, 2010 -
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Dinosaur Chess will not properly load or work completely with any operating system newer than Windows XP. This product has not been up-dated.
Rating: 1 / 5
My daughter, who is six-years old, seemed to like Chester, but she LOVES Dinosaur Chess. The lesson plans are very well designed and the exercises are magnificently creative. Let me give you an example: in order to teach how the knight moves an exercise entails little mice that can eat you up, so you better move fast to the square marked with an X. Super!
What makes this chess software different from others like Chessmaster is in its ability to gradually improve play strength as the student gets better. This is a very tricky problem. In other chess programs the chess engine either plays very strongly or very weakly. In Dinosaur Chess, while its internal chess engine gets calibrated for different labels, it adds another dimension to adjust strength: certain chess pieces are missing on the opponent’s side depending on the level.
Rating: 5 / 5
Dinosaur Chess is the best chess software for children ages 4-7. It is much better than the Fritz and Chesster CD’s for this age group. Dadi Jonnson wrote a splended review on this piece of software so I won’t go into it in depth.
But I will say that I’ve tried several childrens/beginners chess programs with my 5-year old daughter:
1. Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess
2. Fritz and Chesster parts #1 and #2.
3. Dinosaur Chess
Dinosaur chess was by far the best program for my daughter. While using the other 2 programs I had to repeatedly guide my daughter through the mini-games and activities (and the narrative in the case of the Fritz and Chesster) because Maurice Ashley and Fritz and Chesster programs were above my daughter’s head. Dinosaur Chess is written directly for my daughter’s age range.
Rating: 5 / 5
I have more to say about this great program. I tried out 3 childrens/beginners chess programs on my 5-year old daughter:
1. Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess
2. Fritz and Chesster 1 & 2
3. Dinosaur Chess
The first 2 programs were written for older children and were too difficult for my daughter to grasp. Maurice Ashley Teaches Chess is for beginners ages pre-teen to adult (10+). It’s an excellent piece of software, but my daughter can’t read just yet so it is way above her head. If I sit next to her and guide her through the program’s mini-games and activities she can pick things up, but I definitely have to sit down next to her and navigate through it the whole time. The Fritz and Chesster series are also excellent chess software for kids. But even Part I is too advanced for my 5-year old. It targets children ages 8-13, and it really does not teach chess in a pedagogical way. One has to wade through a long narrative and some non-chess related activities to learn the game of chess.
Dinosaur Chess targets 4-7 year olds and teaches the game of chess in a standard pedagogical way, where chess knowledge is presented in bite-sized portions from the basic building blocks to the most complicated concepts. In addition, all of the mini-games and activities are directly related to chess. Most importantly, my daughter can go through the chess lessons without me being present. Dinosaur chess is the best chess software for younger kids.
Dadi Jonnson has written a splendid review on Dinosaur Chess on ChessOK Cafe that you should look up and read.
Rating: 5 / 5