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Mind sports · Basic · b6

Touch-move and good manners

At home 20 min 2 players One room

Ready when: King, check, checkmate, stalemate (b3) started.

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What you are learning

The manners and rules of a real game: shaking hands, moving with one hand, saying "I adjust" before straightening a piece, the touch-move rule, and saying "good game" at the end, win or lose.

Words on this card Board, Touch-move
Board
The board has 64 squares, light and dark in turn.
Touch-move
A touched piece must be moved; to straighten a piece without moving it, say "I adjust" first.

Set up

A board; a whole game.

Weather: any weather

The base setup for mind sports

Show it first for the one teaching

  1. Shake hands and say "good luck".
  2. Touch a piece, and show that you must now move it if it can move.
  3. Say "I adjust" and straighten a piece on its square without moving it.
  4. At the end, shake hands and say "good game".

Your part while they practise

Play the game and hold both of you to the rule.

Step by step

  1. Shake hands before the game.
  2. Move with one hand.
  3. To straighten a piece, say "I adjust" first, only on your turn.
  4. Touch your own piece meaning to move it: you must move it if it can.
  5. Touch an opponent's piece meaning to take it: you must take it if you can.
  6. Shake hands and say "good game" after, win or lose.

How much: 1 game 20 min a session 2 days a week

Say one thing Pick one line from "What you will see" for today and say only that.

The game: Manners prize

Each broken rule costs a point; the fewest points wins.

Who plays: the child against you, both keeping score.

How to play, turn by turn
Turns
  1. Play a normal game
  2. Each time a manners rule is broken, the other player calls it and a point is added
  3. Count the points at the end
Fair play
A grown-up's slips count double.
Points
1 point for each broken rule; the lowest total is best.
Fouls
1 point each
  • Touching a piece and then moving a different one
  • Straightening a piece without saying "I adjust"
  • No handshake at the start or the end
Winning
The fewer points wins the manners prize, whoever won the game.
Stars
  1. 3 points or fewer for 1 star
  2. 1 points or fewer for 2 stars
  3. 0 points or fewer for 3 stars

Easier or harder

Easier

Touch-move for the last 10 moves only.

Harder

Strict touch-move for the whole game.

What you will see, and what to say

  • hand hovers and touches pieces Decide first, then touchHands in the lap while thinking.
  • fixes a piece without saying it Say 'I adjust' firstThen straighten it.
  • walks off after losing Shake hands, say good gameEvery game.

Self-check

0

A whole game with 0 touch-move slips and a handshake at both ends.

Fitness for this

Warm up first: how to warm up, at workonfitness.com. For strength and stretching, its exercise library shows each exercise step by step, with an easier version.

This card trains touch-move, conduct.

Basic is done when the child can play a whole game and checkmate with two rooks or a back-rank mate.

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