{"id":55,"date":"2005-12-12T22:30:25","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T04:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgeandshannon.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2005-12-13T07:52:22","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T13:52:22","slug":"emilys-first-chess-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/emilys-first-chess-game","title":{"rendered":"Emily’s First Chess Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emily wanted to use some of her Christmas money from Granny (Shannon’s grandmother) to by a Chinese checkers game. She had never played Chinese checkers before, but I guess a board shaped like a star with marbles on it looks pretty fun to a 4-year-old. So we shopped around and finally decided on one of these sets that comes with Chinese checkers, regular checkers, chess, backgammon, mancala, etc. We have enjoyed several rounds of Chinese checkers, and she is learning well. Nathan, of course, wants to play too, so that makes for an interesting game. This weekend I played two colors so I could be opposite both of them. After a while I completely gave up trying to get Nathan to make legal moves. I just let him pick up any of his pieces and place it wherever he wanted to on the board. Talk about throwing off your strategy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Emily has been asking me to play “that game you play on a checker board that isn’t checkers”, commonly known as chess. I just wasn’t sure if she was ready for it, but today I finally broke down and decided to give it a shot. So, tonight I sat her at the bar and explained the moves and rules while I cooked dinner. She has a way to go, but I think she picked up on it fairly well. She even managed to beat her old man after dinner. And to make matters even worse for me, Shannon caught it on video (watch below).

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Click the link above to broadcast media file , base on your network speed , may need waiting for some time...<\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily wanted to use some of her Christmas money from Granny (Shannon’s grandmother) to by a Chinese checkers game. She had never played Chinese checkers before, but I guess a board shaped like a star with marbles on it looks pretty fun to a 4-year-old. So we shopped around and finally decided on one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blueeyedzoo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}