Today I wanna talk to you about chess. This is considered as a game, sport or science but I think it depends of what someone feels. I mean the more you applied to chess the more importance it has for you. If you consider chess as a science is because you develop or learn methods, plans, estrategies or theories to improve and develop the enormous possibilities that exists playing chess. Last night I made an experiment with my 7 years old nephew. I realized he doesn't like to play chess so much especially because he is afraid to lose and this is natural for many of us. Some pieces of advantage in his favor let him to succeed but with the strongest pieces (i.e. castles and queen) the difficulties increase and discourages him to play.
However I found accidentally a way to motivate him to play again... I know he shows strong interest in playing and learning of me so I take advantage of this. He told me "Common, uncle Dany you are an engineer you have things more interesting to do together".
The effect of this words on me was effective. I started to mention about a secret plan to improve the security of our house using an alarm which could be activated in every room of the house. This was the first step, then we went through different parts of the house to get the necessary tools and equipment, and I said: "before we implement the system we have to make the plans and draws, I mean we have to design". My nephew was excited and motivated inmediately and of course he helps to draw the wires and bottoms and the location of the alarm equipment. I told him "The alarm's location is really important because if people doesn't notice the lights or listen the sounds, nobody can realize that to help us" ... "the thieves are intelligent most of time and they could plan to attack us any moment as in chess for example if they move his pawn to this square and we do this movement ... they could trap our king or father" ... My nephew interrupt me and said: "yes that's true but our mom (he was pointing out the queen) can help us by moving this way to this place and the thieves could use a misil (bishop) to take our knife"... Enough for me ... my mission of motivation was taking concrete form at this time so all I had to do was to contribute with more ideas to my nephew's imaginagion...
... And imagination it just what we need when a difficult situation appears. More ideas each time more complex because world is every time more complex .
Monday, November 06, 2006
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