Chess

Bentley continues to play chess with Matt, Kara and Mark. And now Jake has insisted that he be taught chess. Even before his first tutoring session, Jake knew something about chess because he plays WarChess on the iPad. However, he wanted to play against a real opponent. So Bentley took on the challenge and started teaching Jake chess.

It was really neat that Bentley was willing and able to do that, but since Bentley had been receiving special tutoring on chess via the game Science Wiz Chess Once A Pawn A Time we felt it was only fair that Jake also get to learn using Once a Pawn a Time. So opa introduced Jake to chess using their system.

Last Saturday both boys wanted to play chess with opa, so he got out two chess boards and played them both at the same time. He said it was a good challenge.


Jake asked Kara if she knew what stalemate was. She dutifully said no. He told her it meant both of you win! Kara found this amusing since she had been ready to tell him that it means both of you lose. Whose definition do you like better?