Chess Worksheets for 6-Year-Olds - Page 4
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Writing it Down Worksheet
To document pawn promotion, add "=<piece name>" to the move notation. For example: e7-e8=Q. Ask your child to look at the chessboard and take note of the moves. Check the notations are correct. (80 words)
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Discovered Check: Puzzle 3 Worksheet
Parents often encourage their children to play chess to sharpen their thinking skills. Using the black pieces, your child must strategically move the piece to place the white king in check. Draw the line, examine the options and check the correct move.
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Chess Facts Bingo Worksheet
Help your child assess their knowledge of chess with our simple worksheet. It contains six questions; read them to your child and ask them if the statements are true or false. Once they check the boxes for the true statements, you'll have a better understanding of their understanding of the game.
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Castling No–no's: Part 1 Worksheet
Help your child learn how to play chess by using this worksheet. Ask them to circle the king and rook that can castle in the picture. Explain that a king cannot castle if the king or rook has moved, or if there is any other piece between them. Knowing these rules will make playing a lot easier!
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Discovered Check: Puzzle 1 Worksheet
Chess is an excellent way to engage your kids' brains and strengthen thinking skills. This worksheet is ideal for inspiring and growing their interest in the game. Have your child take the white pieces and move them to checkmate the black king. Compare their move against the provided notations to check accuracy.
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What Is a Stalemate? Worksheet
Chess is an ideal way to develop logic, strategizing, problem-solving and more! Even kids can learn it. With this worksheet, children can learn about draws and stalemates. Sample boards will help them decide which team, black or white, is at a stalemate.
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Run, Protect or Capture Worksheet
When kids play chess, they're not only striving to win - they're sharpening their critical thinking and problem-solving prowess. With this free PDF worksheet, they learn how to protect their king from check, whether it's running away, shielding it or capturing the checking piece. Sample boards offer them the chance to practice.
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How Pawns Capture Worksheet
Ask your child to circle all the places a pawn can capture in one move on the diagonal. Pawns are limited in the moves they can make, but can still capture enemy pieces. This worksheet will help brush up on their knowledge of the rules of chess.
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Castling No - no's: Part 2 Worksheet
Teach your child the rules of castling: no castling if the king is under attack or will move onto an attacked square, or cross an attack line. To prepare for a game of chess, help your child complete the exercise of identifying when the king can castle – check the pictures.
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Two Rook Mate Practice Worksheet
Chess is all about checkmating your opponent. This free Two Rook Mate practice worksheet is a fun way for your mini strategist to do just that. They can draw a line showing their move then pick the correct notation for the mate! A great way for them to practice fine motor skills, too.
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Notation of Captures Writing it Down Worksheet
To teach students how to record captures in chess, use this worksheet. Write down the piece's short name, start sq., and the sq. where it captures, separating them with an X. For example, Rd2Xd4 means a rook moved d2 to d4 and took a piece. Pawn captures don't need a name.
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How Pawns Move: Part I Worksheet
Pawns can only move forward along the file one square at a time. For its first move, a pawn can move one or two squares. Show your child how to move pawns by asking them to put an X for the correct move on this worksheet. This exercise will help them gain confidence in using pawns.
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Rook and Bishop Worksheet
This tracing sheet helps your child learn chess pieces by matching each piece, short name and symbol to the correct name. After tracing, have them answer the questions and check their answers. It's a great way for them to become familiarized with chess.
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Castling: Protecting the King Worksheet
Castle your king with the rook to get into a safer position! Write 0-0 for a two-square move, or 0-0-0 for a three-square move. Look at the worksheet with your child; on the first chessboard, the king has moved two squares and the rook is beside it. On the second, the rook has jumped over the king. Let your child use their castling knowledge to answer the questions in the easy pdf.
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How Bishops Move Worksheet
There is no such thing as too much sharpening of skills. Encourage your child to learn more about chess technicalities with this simple worksheet. It shows them how a bishop moves: along diagonals any number of squares, but it can't jump over other pieces.
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Knight Quest Worksheet
Testing your child's strategic planning and chess skills? Give them this worksheet: Ask them to mark an 'x' on the square where the knight should jump to attack the enemy bishop. See how well they plan for a win! (80 words)
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Smart Capturing Worksheet
Chess is a game of strategy and calculation. When presented with two captures, a player should always go for the one that yields the highest value. For example, taking a knight over a pawn. In this worksheet, your children will choose the best capture for each black piece. Ask them to circle the correct answers. (80 words)
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Getting out of Check: Capture
Kids love chess because it combines strategy and the thrill of outwitting their opponents! This free chess strategy worksheet teaches kids how to protect and capture the threatening piece when their king is in danger. The downloadable includes sample boards to practice with. Get it today and have your chess whiz mastering the game in no time!
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Notation of Check Worksheet
Chess is an addictive game! Once you know the basics of check and checkmate, you'll be hooked! Teach your little one to make check notation with this free PDF worksheet. They can use downloadable practice to look at each picture and mark the correct notation, strengthening their problem-solving skills while they learn to play - and win - this fun game!
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Find Stalemate! Worksheet
Teach your kids Chess and give them more than a hobby - equip them with critical thinking, rationale and problem-solving skills! This free worksheet helps them understand stalemates by examining various sample boards. By providing visual discernment and the joy of the game, your child's logical skills will soar!
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Promotion Practice Worksheet
Test your kids' promotions skills with this worksheet! Ask them to find the pictures in which the pawns are correctly promoted. Remember, when a pawn reaches the last rank it may be promoted to a queen, bishop, knight or rook. In addition, a pawn can be promoted when it captures a chess piece on the last rank.
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What is Check? Worksheet
Check is an important move in chess where the opposing king is under attack. With this free PDF worksheet, kids can learn to make and identify check, and exercise their critical thinking and problem-solving skills. They'll look at each picture and identify which piece can check the king. Playing with check helps kids learn to play to win.
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Setting up the Chessboard: Part 1 Worksheet
Teach your child the starting positions of the black and white armies on the chessboard. Black pieces are placed on ranks 7 and 8, and white pieces on ranks 1 and 2. Have them check the highlighted boxes on the chessboard to make sure they know the correct pieces to start with.
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Getting out of Check: Protection
Chess is a game of strategy and outwitting opponents. Kids love it for the challenge of one-upping their friends! This free chess strategy worksheet will help your child learn to protect their king and capture the checking piece. With this downloadable, they'll be able to practice protecting and capturing with the sample boards.
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Chess for 6-Year-Olds through engaging worksheets not only introduces the game's fundamental principles but also fosters critical thinking and strategic planning at a tender age. These worksheets are meticulously designed to transform the complex game into bite-sized, manageable concepts that young minds can easily grasp.
At this pivotal age, children are in their prime for absorbing new information, making it the perfect time to introduce Chess through interactive worksheets. These materials are infused with fun activities that align with the cognitive development stages of 6-year-olds, ensuring that they are not only learning but thoroughly enjoying the process. By breaking down Chess into playful and visually appealing exercises, children can understand the roles of different pieces, basic moves, and even some elementary strategies without feeling overwhelmed.
Moreover, Chess worksheets for 6-year-olds gently nudge them towards improving concentration, patience, and problem-solving skills—abilities that are beneficial beyond the Chess board. They learn to anticipate their opponent's moves and plan their strategies accordingly, which translates to enhanced decision-making skills in real-life scenarios.
In essence, Chess worksheets for 6-year-olds lay down a foundation of not just a globally appreciated intellectual game but also instill life-long skills wrapped in the joy of learning.
