Here's one way to get the young ones to try the royal game. Crazychess is a simple arcade-style game that features the Knight and Pawn as the main pieces. The game has a simple objective: not allowing enough Pawns which spawn from the other side of the board to reach your side by using the Knight to attack and take them out. Also, when there is no pawn on the board, gold coins appear which the Knight can also collect and use to repair the castle, should some pawns reach it and cause some damage. As with the usual arcade games, it comes with special powers, such as Slow Down Pawn, Speed Up Knight, and the all-time favorite 1UP.
Crazychess isn't really chess, and like most people you would probably get bored of it pretty soon (I hope they have some improvements in the pipeline though). But it can bridge that chasm between the chessboard and the digital world that kids nowadays regularly inhabit.
Many thanks to my friends from Schemingmind.com from whom I got wind of this game.
Oh, one last thing: help me hatch my dragon! Get yours too!
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