Backgammon Set for Kids, Ages 3 and Up, Educational Learning Game, 1-6 Players

The media could not be loaded. The best part of this chess game is the book! It perfectly explains how the pieces move across the board in a memorable way. My 5 year old loves it. It’s easy to understand, fun to play and not too expensive. We love to read the book and then color the pages from the coloring book which I bought separately.

Here's what I loved:1.) It teaches each piece individually! - Story Time Chess gives each of the different pieces on the board a cute character and a fun backstory. And the backstory helps you remember how they move! (King Chompers gobbles up pizza as he goes slowly, moving one step at a time.) After each character's story, there's a set of practice games that will help your child practice moving that piece (while committing how it moves to memory). The instructions recommend mastering one piece before moving on to the next. This seems so logical to me! Don't try to remember all those pieces and their moves all at once. Learn them one at a time!2.) Its more than just a chess game! This set has a lovely, colorful book that's filled with all the character backstories and practice games! There's also a small board game and a set of cards for practice. Plus, the chess board is double sided! There's a Story Time Chess side and a regulation side!3.) The characters are fun and engaging! As I mentioned, there are fun characters and backstories for each piece on the chess board. They are adorable and the kids really love them! And I love that they slide into each of the chess pieces! This means that when you're ready to graduate to the official game, you can slip the characters off and play with the regular chess pieces!4.) The board and pieces are large. - This may seem like its not a big deal, but for small hands, this is great! It not only makes the game seem fun and engaging, but it makes it easier for little hands to play with!We've really enjoyed this game so far! The kids and I all love the colorful story book and the adorable characters! And I feel like its actually helping us all master how the pieces move. (There was a period of a couple weeks between the first time we played and the second - because I got really sick and wasn't up to any games for a while. But even after all that time, I still remembered that the King moves one step at a time and where he moves - thanks to the adorable story, characters, and practice games!) At 40 years old, I may actually FINALLY learn to play chess!!! And I'm kinda super excited about that!!! The kids all enjoy the fun stories and colorful characters as well! And with the storybook and practice games, it really feels like we're getting a LOT for the price - a standard chess game, a fun and fanciful chess game, practice games, and a story book!I received this game, free of charge, from Story Time Chess, in exchange for my honest BLOG review. I was not required to post a positive Amazon review, but I was so impressed by this game that I felt compelled to.

I recently got into chess as a hobby and my daughter watched me play a lot of games. She really loves board games and so she asked if I could teach her. I figured it would be fun to be able to teach her and play together. The difficult thing is...well chess is difficult! I didn't know where to start teaching a 4-year-old something as complicated as chess.I found this online and immediately knew that my daughter would take to it. I just didn't know how much! She absolutely loves this. We breezed through level 1 and bought the puzzle book for it. We breezed through that and we're not on level 2!She loves the characters and the stories. They're the right amount of fun, silliness, and helpfulness. She now knows how all the pieces move and play a simple game of "capture the king."The set itself is well made. The characters are likable. The stories are entertaining. The exercises and puzzles are the right difficulty.There are a few criticisms.1) The pieces could be better quality. They're a bit light and feels like cheap plastic2) More stories would have been helpful, as they were a big hit3) More explanation could have been given for why there are 2 sets of Bop and Bae (bishops). My daughter was confused by Bop and Bae were both on King Shaky's side AND King Chomper. The same goes for Clip and Clop (the knights).Other than that, the whole thing is fantastic! She's liking level 2 so far. I'd definitely recommend this.

We absolutely LOVE this game! We bought it to teach my three year old how to play backgammon so she could play with her grandfather who is a backgammon champ. It was exceeded our expectations. The story and characters are too cute! It does a great job of explaining the game and making it memorable for littles. I was worried she would be overwhelmed by all the little pieces but she loves the different kinds of boats and can set the board up by herself. This game is totally worth the money and now we get to have a family game night!

Great game! My 4 year old took to it right away and loved the stories.-1 star because we received two white queens instead of 1 king and 1 queen.

Great game to learn chess. I used it to learn myself. The storybook makes it very easy to understand. You can take the character pictures off the pieces once you remember. I like it has subsequent games to teach strategies and get more technical. The game brings pouches to keep the pieces in, easy to put away.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:My kid and I read a chapter a day and practice once a day, it was very fun for us, even I learned to play , it's a great product for kids

Must have gift ! Our 6 year old loves this and it's something fun to do when you have run out of fun things to do.The book is easy to follow. Characters are cute. It sets the children up for success. I was nervous it would be to much to understand for much daughter but she's really into it. Hopefully we can play more chess in the future.