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Dinosaur Chess, the ideal game for children to learn chess.
Dinosaur Chess is a computer didactic game that allows children to learn to play chess in a fun and simple way. The best way to learn for children is through games and Dinosaur Chess, it is ideal for them to start taking their first steps in the wonderful world of chess.In this interactive video game Professor MacDinosaur will teach children the basics of chess. They must choose their favorite character, who will be born from an egg. The only way to grow to face the other dinosaurs is to learn new chess things. To do this, they must listen carefully to Professor MacDinosaur.This fun teacher will teach children the basics of chess in different lessons until they reach the dreaded Tyrannousaurus Rex, which they must win in a game. Children can learn independently and at their own pace.They can play the main story, play a game against a dinosaur, watch individual lessons or watch a player's progress. The game is available in several languages, in which Spanish is included. This game was nominated for the BAFTA awards as the best interactive game, which demonstrates its great teaching ability.This game is valid for any child, even those who do not show a keen interest in chess will be attracted to this wonderful game."I work with children with special needs, particularly with children with behavioral disorders, such as autism or related and I have been able to verify that it is the best program adapted to this type of group."The advantages of this program are:1) Children can choose their profile and the fact that they keep their progress, they like to see at the end of the game time how many dinosaurs they have accumulated, which represent their games won.2) They can develop games from the battle of pawns to a complete one with all the pieces of the Tyrannosaurus rex. Of the other chess programs or applications for children I have tried, they always played with all the pieces. The passage of a pawn battle from normal board to screen is more consistent with its level, and the child asks for it more safely.3) The fact that the child always plays with material advantage, attracts him more and makes him feel more secure. If they lose, they accept it with more pleasure, better tolerating defeat, a particularly sensitive issue in this group, where intolerance to failure is very high.4) The quality of the drawings of the dinosaurs of each level, they like it a lot and are always attractive. They feel as if the opponent's strength is given to them, just because they play against them.5) These children are very sensitive to noise that annoys them easily, but when they capture a piece and explodes like a bomb, it makes them laugh, motivating them to go ahead and repeat the action. It reinforces their self-esteem.6) Although these children prefer to summarize the explanations Professor Mac Dinosaur, given its ease of losing attention, the lessons are shorter and more concise than those of other children's programs that have long stories behind.7) The movement of the knight is always the most complex and difficult to learn for them. However, the labyrinths to get out of them through this movement, is one of the most liked because they face against more dinosaur numbers as time passes.8) Like all children, they like sweets. The practice of the movement of the bishop with the capture of mobile candies, attracts them, although they get tired more easily since the movement speed of the sweets is faster than they in particular can control.9) Have fun and laugh more easily than with other software. They feel that they control the situation more and see the dinosaur grow in size from their profile as they go along and like it a lot.Every program is improvable, depending on the user's needs and cognitive abilities. However, in the case of the Chess Dinosaur, it would improve a couple of things:10) When the Dinosaur checks the child, warning him with his voice and he does not catch that he has to move the king and tries to make another play, which obviously does not leave the system.These children have a hard time understanding the issue of check and become frustrated when they do not know what happens to the program that does not allow them to make a play, no matter how many times they play. In that case, I would put a picture of Professor Mac Dinosaur making the wrong move by marking the piece that checks the king (not through the voice alone).11) Put some more exercise in the form of mazes with each of the different pieces. They always know little of the three examples of each piece they put. In summary, the Dinosaur chess program is also suitable for children with behavioral disorder and especially with autism. The images and exercises are attractive to them and have fun, enjoying as they learn to move more chips and can then demonstrate on a normal board.
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