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Teaching kids to play cribbage11/17/2023 I have five years of experience teaching chess to kids, as well as over a year managing a game store, where I taught both kids and adults a wide variety of board games. I've studied and played chess for over 35 years. My goal as a board game tutor would be to teach as many games as possible, both traditional and novel, and to strive to find a good fit. I am happy to teach chess, but I am equally happy teaching a curriculum of several games, both traditional and novel, in an effort to find a good fit. To this end, there is usually a game for everyone. The point of games is to engage a person's creativity, to find a miniature environment for their skills to thrive in. While chess was a great fit for me, I believe that games are an extension of a person's personality, much like a fashion choice or a particular taste in books. There is a widespread idea that chess is required learning for a growing child, a kind of mental benchmark in their development. I first started teaching kids how to play chess while I was a Peace Corps English teacher in Guinea, West Africa, and I continued to teach kids as a chess instructor with Chess Wizards in the Greater Boston area. Chess is my all-time favorite, but I also know how to play over 200 board games, including checkers, cribbage, and backgammon and more modern favorites like Ticket to Ride, Hive, and Settlers of Catan.
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