[dbcurtis]

When my daughter was little, we played "turn around chess". She could, at any time, start her turn by turning the board around and taking over my position. I simply played my best chess (which isn't all that great, frankly) and when she felt cornered she would turn the board around and get the opportunity to attack from a superior position while I would try to fight my way out.

We both had a lot of fun, and I didn't have to do anything fake to make it fun for her.

[breadbox]

That is a great idea, and I wish I had had it in my back pocket about ten years ago.

My daughter invented "coin flip chess" when she was little. I had showed her how to flip a coin to pick between two choices, and she wanted to add it to the game. So before you moved you had to flip a coin, and if you guessed wrong you lost your turn.

On move four she took my queen.

[Iv]

That's just great! The idea of handicap-voiding this way is simply genius.