{"id":9931,"date":"2023-03-27T23:36:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=9931"},"modified":"2023-03-27T23:45:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T06:45:03","slug":"chess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/27\/chess\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a year, our house has gone from owning 0 chess sets to 7 sets!<\/p>\n

– Storytime Chess. I’m so happy the Siedlecki’s got it for Abigail. The silly storybook really got her to learn how the pieces move!
\n– 2 sets for Abigail’s Aftercare program. Abigail generally refuses to play any game if I ask her to. Grumble grumble. But if everyone in the room is already playing, it’s kind of a given that we’re going to play. DO NOT tell Abigail I bought those sets until she’s old enough to know the truth!
\n– My dad’s chess set. He gave me this amazing set that he got in college. The pieces look to me far more like a “proper” chess set than the very popular Staunton style.
\n– A set Megan got for me for Christmas (Thanks honey!)
\n– Another set for Megan’s work. A student of her’s refuses to play with the set Megan got for me! Hurumph! Chess snob! ;-)
\n– I think Megan just bought a travel set for the Hawaii trip<\/p>\n

– And there’s another set at my work too, loaned to Autistry by a mentor. So we can play when I haven’t brought one of my sets to work.<\/p>\n

I’m getting to play a bit!
\nToday I watched two first graders play chess at Aftercare. It was ah-dore-able! No one knew how the pieces moved so they were just moving pieces around and having fun! Last week Abigail and her friend M. challenged me to chess; we played for a while until it devolved into tears. I play about a game a week or so at Autistry against students and sometimes besides mentors (hi Tim!), which is nice.<\/p>\n

Today I was buying replacement pieces for those lost at Aftercar and I ALMOST bought a chess book. Then I thought, “Studying chess might be a sure-fire way of muting my enthusiasm!” so I skipped it. Maybe next year!<\/p>\n

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In a year, our house has gone from owning 0 chess sets to 7 sets! – Storytime Chess. I’m so happy the Siedlecki’s got it for Abigail. The silly storybook really got her to learn how the pieces move! – 2 sets for Abigail’s Aftercare program. Abigail generally refuses to play any game if I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9931"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9938,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9931\/revisions\/9938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}