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Dinosaur Chess: Learn to Play | 
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| From: Convekta
Category: Software
Buy New: $30.99
New (4) from $30.99
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 598
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Nt
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
UPC: 188684637450
ASIN: B000MS6LLM
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Condition: Brand new
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| Features:
| • | 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 |
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Product Description
Sign 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 chess games against the dinosaurs * Entertaining and challenging Chess is Good for you! Playing chess gives brains of any age a good workout. Kids especially benefit from learning and playing the game. * Improve IQ scores * Increase concentration * Challenges gifted children * Helps developmental and abstract thinking in children * Potentially helps underachievers * Develops critical thinking skills SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: Pentium III or equivalent, 128 MB, screen resolution of 1024X768, Windows 98SE/ME/2000/XP
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| Customer Reviews:
More on Dinosaur Chess December 28, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
Very good children's software December 16, 2007
Andre L. Wilson (Bettendorf, Iowa USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
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.
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