GenChess: Design Your Own Virtual Pieces My latest curated list of chess resources was in 2020 and, predictably, some of the links no longer work. I updated that post accordingly, and now I have something else to add! GenChess is a fun Google Labs Experiment that uses the power of AI to allow the user … Read more
Find quality free curriculum discussion guides for a library of movies at Journeys in Film, including Queen of Katwe, a movie about a young Ugandan girl whose life is changed when she is taught to play chess.
UPDATE 3/14/2025: Solitaire Chess is now a magnetic traveling game, but the online Flash version no longer exists. Tic Tac Chec (honestly one of my favorite ways to introduce chess to young people) is sadly no longer being produced. You can still find used versions of the game, though. For more chess resources, you can … Read more
A few years ago, I thought I would help out the parents of my gifted and talented students by writing about some games, toys, or books that I thought might make good purchases during the holiday season. I called the series of posts, “Gifts for the Gifted,” and I have continued to do it annually on every … Read more
Solitaire Chess Free is a challenging app for iOS. I also mentioned the boardgame that can be purchased at Mindware in my last post. In both versions, the object of the one-player game is to capture all of the pieces on the board until there is only one left. Every move has to result in … Read more