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Chess is a game of make-believe kings and queens, pawns (卒) and rooks (车). For 12-year-old Andre, chess is more【小题1】just a game.
He uses what he learned on the chessboard in real life, like, think before you move. He’s just one of the students from some of Los Angeles’s toughest neighborhoods【小题2】 (learn) to play.
Damen Fletcher, 【小题3】learned how to play chess at age 13, grew up in Compton. After leaving the city 【小题4】(attend) college, he came home to find his 【小题5】(child) friends struggling.
“Some of 【小题6】 (they) had even fallen into prison (牢狱). I just wondered, ‘Why did I have such a different result?’ And it was chess,” he said.
He started Train of Thought to help kids of all 【小题7】(age) find their inner king or queen.
“Every game of chess is 75 to 100 moves, and every single move that your opponent (对手) make presents 【小题8】new problem for you to solve,” he said.
So, how does Fletcher teach a 5-year-old how to play chess?
“We have a really【小题9】 (interest) story that we use to help kids that age set up a chessboard for the first time,” Fletcher said. “It goes: the king and the queen got married. They 【小题10】(ride) on horses to their castle (城堡) and had eight children.”
