Frank Ho,
founder and CEO, of Ho Math and Chess invented a revolutionary
chess training set (patent pending) especially designed and
manufactured for training children as young as 4 years old to
play chess.
This incredible
chess set just plays like an ordinary 3-D chess set but offers
additional advantage that is the moves of each chess pieces are
clearly marked on each chess piece to make learning of moves of
each chess piece much easier for a 4-year old child. It is a
"what you see is what you move" chess set. The geometry concepts
of lines and line segments, and transformations are used to
design this revolutionary set with the intersection point as the
turn center. It is a great pattern tool to train children's
skills in observation, orientation, decision, and acting. No
more spills or bumps for small hands when moving pieces.
Additional advantage with this flat surfaced set is to play
Blind Chess which use a very simple move rule and is fun to play
(more details on how to play Blind Chess, see the middle of this
screen.).
This revolutionary chess set also allows chess players to play
half-blind chess such that only one's own chess pieces are seen
by oneslef and the display of the opponent's chess pieces are
not seen by the opponent. It is not only fun and thrill for
children to play chess half-blind, it also improves children's
memory ability.
With this Ho
Math and Chess training set, learning chess has become easier
and more interesting. Why?
Because these
geometric chess symbols are also incorporated into Ho Math and
Chess integrated workbooks so there is smooth transition from
playing chess to working on paper and pencil math and chess
integrated worksheets.
If the child is
not ready to work on math and chess integrated workbooks, then
this still is a great chess set to facilitate learning on how to
play chess.
The invention of
Ho Math and Chess training set has revolutionized the chess
learning population profile to possibly as young as 4-year old
or pre-kindergartners.
Ho Math and
Chess set is the coolest teaching chess set on earth for
teaching how to move chess pieces and training children on how
to play chess in the shortest time.
How
to Play Blind Chess
Frank Ho
Founder of Ho
Math and Chess
Canada certified
math teacher
www.mathandchess.com
Ho Math and
Chess Teaching Set is especially designed for young children to
learn chess much much quicker than the tradition 3-D fingures
chess set. All Ho Math and Chess Teaching pieces have flat
surfaces and uniform outlook in square size, the pieces cannot
be identified when flipped over face-down. This special feature
allows children to play a special game called Blind Chess.
The rules to
play Blind Chess is very easy and fun to play. It simply follws
a ranking order to take and all pieces move or take like rook's
move but only one square at a time.
Board
Blind Chess is
played by two-player on half (4 by 8 square board) of the normal
chessboard.
Game Rules
The 32 pieces
are shuffled and then each of them is randomly placed face-down
on each square. The first player turns over a piece and the
colour of the first piece uncovered will be the side of the
first player.
Moving a Piece
There are 3
kinds of moves. A player may turn a piece face-up, move a piece,
or capture an opponent’s piece. A player may only move face-up
pieces of his or her own colour. Unlike normal chess moving
rules, there is one rule to move pieces in Blind Chess: a piece
move only one square up, down, left, or right, namely all pieces
move like a rook. To capture, a face-up piece may only move in
rook's move only to a square occupied by an opponent’s face-up
piece.
Capturing an
Opponent’s Piece
All pieces
(Black or White) are ranked according to the following hierarchy
and the capturing rule is strictly according to the pre-defined
hierarchy.
King has the
highest rank and can capture all opponent’s pieces other than
pawn.
Queen can
capture all opponent’s pieces other than king.
Rook can capture
all opponent’s pieces other than king or queen.
Bishop can
capture all opponent’s pieces other than opponent’s king, queen,
rook.
Knight can only
capture opponent’s pawn.
Pawn has the
lowest rank but can capture opponent’s king.
How game ends
The game ends
when a player can not make a move or until all pieces are
captured. If the game is forced in an endless cycle of moves
then it is a draw.
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Comparing
Traditional Chess Set to the Flat-Faced Chess Set
Frank Ho
Teacher and
founder of Ho Math and Chess
www.mathandchess.com
It is
interesting to note that western chess set are all made in 3-D
figurines and each chess piece looks very different and yet
Chinese chess sets are all flat-faced with uniform look on one
surface, why is this? I do not know if anyone has done a
research to look into and see why there is such a disparity in
using such a very different styles?
I have invented
a new chess training set which is based on geometry lines in
correspondence to how each chess piece moves. Since the emphasis
is so much on its direction of moves so I used the flat-surfaced
chess pieces. After I used it for a while, I concluded that my
flat-surfaced international chess set is just as effective to
use when compared to the traditional chess set, but I am not
asking adults to convert to use my chess set. The clear
advantage of using my invention - Ho Math and Chess Teaching set
is that it is so easy for young children to learn chess and the
speed that the young children can learn to play when using Ho
Math and Chess Teaching Set is just incredible. This can be
evident by the responses from the accompanying parents who come
to my class with kids together and asked for using Ho Math and
Chess Teaching Set since they also think it is much easier for
their children to learn how to play chess.
The following
attempts to make some comparisons on how different there are
between the traditional chess set and Ho Math and Chess Teaching
Set (hereby called Ho Set).
1. Look
Ho Set is
flat-surfaced and each chess piece’s moves are marked on the
surface of each chess piece so it is easier for young children
to learn how to move by just looking at the directions marked on
each chess piece when compared to the use of traditional chess
set.
2. Geometry
Concept
Ho Set design is
based on the geometry concept of line and line segment to
indicate that the allowable move is one square only or
multi-square. Each arrow marked on each chess piece metaphors a
line so the move could be multi-square, whereas the line segment
with no arrows signals the move is just one square at a time.
The traditional set’s figurines have no relation to its move
directions. The Ho Set’s move direction stems from the middle of
each squared chess piece (turn point for knight) and thus the
lines are actual symmetry lines of each square. The entire
design of Ho Set is closely tied with the concept of geometry
but the traditional chess set is not.
3. Blind
chess and half-blind chess
Since the
flat-surfaced Ho Set has a uniform look on one side so it allows
children to play blind chess or half-blind chess. The half-blind
chess has 3 advantages: one is that it does not require players
to be blind folded and is hilariously fun to play, the third
advantage is it trains children’ memory since one has to
remember where the opponent’s chess pieces are.
4.
Incorporating with workbooks
The Ho Set
symbols are built into Ho Math and Chess integrated workbooks so
the learning curve in use of the math and chess integrated
workbook is shortened by using Ho Set.
As it can be
easily concluded that Ho Set is very good in training children
how to play chess. In addition, it can also be used in
conjunction with working on Ho Math and Chess integrated
workbooks.
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