Questions tagged [teaching]
Techniques for teaching, learning, and improving one's skill.
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What are some good games or techniques for helping kids learn to "lose gracefully"?
This is a good question asked as example on Area51.
I remember when I was a kid I hated to lose, and worse; I would try to cheat to win. I don't remember when or how this attitude changed but I ...
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What techniques should I use to teach my 5-year old to play chess?
The other night while playing checkers with my 5 year old, he told me that he wanted to make up a game using the checkerboard which had different pieces that could do different things. I told him that ...
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How should I approach teaching Magic:The Gathering to a new player?
I've been playing MtG since Ice Age (mostly with friends) so I'm now sitting on a massive duffle bag of cards, plenty of decks, and quite some experience of the game.
I want to teach the game to ...
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What is a good strategy for engaging children in playing go?
For children what is the youngest age that it makes sense to begin to teach them go? Is it best to start them on a 9x9 board? Will a child that has learned basic algebra be better suited to learn go ...
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How can I teach other people game rules?
I am a game enthusiast. I mostly enjoy board games, card games and things like party games that require no preparations. My friends know that about me, and they seem to treat me as an official Rules ...
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How to play teaching game and give a useful review
I've reached a rank where I'd like to start and help weaker players improve their games.
How can I make a review useful for the opponent?
Should I go deep into variations
Talk about theory?
Should I ...
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Why are beginning to intermediate bridge players told to delay learning how to bid certain types of unusual hands?
When learning modern bidding (Standard American 5 card majors in my case), I noticed that the system's bidding techniques and common conventions described good ways of getting to a reasonable contract ...
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Where can I find a chart or diagram explaining Magic's turn structure?
I'm looking for a turn structure diagram for Magic the Gathering to use for teaching new players. There is a lot of information to keep track of in the turn: there is everything from the fact that ...
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What are some good ways to transition to more complex strategic thinking games?
What are some strategies that people have used to introduce novice players (kids or spouses...) to increasingly complex strategic gaming?
Ticket to Ride is a big hit at our house - we'd like to move ...
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Methods for handicapping chess
My four-and-a-half year old son is learning chess. He's got the moves of the pieces down and understands how to checkmate with two rooks (or rook and queen).
I've read some good suggestions in this ...
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How to teach strategic thinking to non-gamer players?
I have some players in my gaming group that seem to have a bit of a problem with devising their strategy. How can I help them improve?
First of all, I want to clarify - I don't need gateway games ...
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What is the best way to learn chess strategy and tactics? [closed]
I am interested in learning chess. I am already familiar with the rules of the game, but I am very weak when it comes to tactics and strategy.
I am afraid that if I just register at chess.com and ...
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At what level should one try to teach go?
I am now at a level where I don't consider myself to be a complete beginner, and I can now recognise at least some of the mistakes made by lower level kyu players.
I would like to help other people ...
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Simplest bidding system for introduction into bridge
What is the best bidding system which can be used for teaching beginners (who never played bridge before)?
I suspect that showing any complicated system, or asking to learn some long manual would ...
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Basic strategies for each country in Diplomacy
I found out one of my friends has Diplomacy and wants to play. He's never played before, and neither have I, nor anyone else in the group. I'm confident I can explain the rules, but I don't really ...
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Is it better to learn to play bridge by reading about it, or just playing?
I'm an avid card player, and I have a particular love for trick-taking games (above all, Hearts and Spades). I've wanted to learn to play bridge for a long time, and I've bought two different books on ...
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Games to learn a foreign language or to enrich your vocabulary in your native language? [closed]
I like Scrabble for learning a foreign language or enriching my vocabulary in my native language. What other games also help you do that?
Please submit one game per answer only - that works best with ...
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Online Resources for Go Tutorials on specific topics
It is well-known that learning about Go is a never-ending process. This question is on resources that I believe to be useful in a certain stage of this learning process.
In the very beginning, there ...
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Getting started with trick-taking games (whist, euchre, bridge, pinochle, etc.) [closed]
I've heard there are a lot of different trick-taking games out there, such as whist, bridge, euchre, pinochle, oh hell, hearts etc. I've heard a lot of good things about these games, but have very ...
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What is the best 18xx game to teach someone? [closed]
There are several 18xx games easily available, maybe 8 or so that have mass produced and a few dozen kits that can be purchased or downloaded.
I love 18xx games, but I've found that not everyone I ...
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How is bridge for beginners taught in Taiwan or Italy today, Precision or another method?
I play duplicate bridge, and have recently begun studying the Precision bidding system on my own. Precision was invented by C.C. Wei in the 1960's with Truscott's assistance, and was used with great ...
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Bridge guide for experienced Spades player?
I'm a long-time online Spades player who's never played a single hand of Bridge, but I'd love to give it a try sometimes. I've always felt that the games seem rather similar, so I was looking for ...
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How can I teach kids how to play Battleship?
I like playing Battleship, and I would like to teach my nieces to play. What's a good, simple strategy to teach someone new to Battleship? In my particular case they are 8-12.
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Resources for Nine Men's Morris
I just started playing Nine Men's Morris. I have tried playing with both the computer and on online multiplayer settings and have been doing abysmally. I tried finding some good resource on the net ...
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What are good tips and suggestions for first-time Junta players?
We'll be pulling Junta off the shelf for the first time in years, and our group will consist of players who haven't played since the last time years ago, and players who have never played it at all.
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Advice on teaching Go to a kid
I am a 7k EGF. There is a 7 year old girl, that is a relative of my wife and lives next door. Once I managed to start her interest in Go by playing several Atari-Go games against her. I decided to ...
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Best way to improve ourselves when playing against a computer
It's often said by world-class Backgammon players that the best way to improve one's play is to analyse one's games with a computer program such as gnubg, JellyFish or Snowie.
gnubg has a "tutor mode"...
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Running an introductory bridge lesson
I've introduced bridge to a small group of coworkers at a few jobs now, and I still don't really know the right way to do it. I'm hoping to get some feedback/suggestions on my approach, so I'll just ...
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How can I use Board Games to help learn English?
I have set two goals here:
Introduce my wife to board gaming
Improve her English.
Does anyone have personal experience with similar goals that could recommend a best course of action?
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What are good resources or techniques to improve one's offence or finishing game?
I'm a moderately skilled chess player; I can beat most casual players and survive quite a while against class A, expert, or master players. Unfortunately, virtually all of my skill is in control of ...
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Teaching Arkham Horror to new players
I am teaching the game to a ton of new people this week. I was going to be playing with only 3 others and planned to join in myself, but now that we're up to 8 players including me, I figured the game ...
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How/where can I get comments from strong players on my gameplay?
I'd like to get advice from strong go players - let's say amateur 6D+ or pros. What are my options for getting that advice?
I am not necessarily looking for full game reviews, rather comments on one ...
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Organizing a game night with non-gamers?
My wife and I want to organize a game night. Most of our friends like to play board games - they are familiar with games like Settlers of Catan and Ticket to Ride. However we are more adventurous. ...
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Eclipse for nongamers [closed]
I've been thinking about getting the board game Eclipse, but before I actually take the plunge and buy the game, I would like to get a better idea of whether or not I would actually be able to get my ...
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In what order should I present the basics of Magic? [closed]
I am working on a multimedia presentation (a series of images with an audio of explanation; video can be used too but should be less than the images) about Magic The Gathering. The scope is to explain ...
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Flashcards to learn Blackjack strategy table?
I want to remember this basic Blackjack strategy table.
Is there a flashcards deck to learn them? (by spaced repetition)
Preferably in Anki format, but other formats are fine too.
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Card game for children [closed]
My nephew is 4 years old. I want to teach him a simple card game (my intention is that in some years he will be able to play bridge). For now, I just want to make him familiar with the cards. What ...
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Advanced heuristics in Pentomino
The game of Pentomino is a tiling puzzle game played on a grid. A Pentomino piece is a shape of five non-diagonally connected tiles. There are 12 unique pieces (ignoring rotation/reflection). The goal ...
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Name a game that teaches elementary school kids [closed]
I am a Media Specialist in an elementary school. I have created a small gaming library for my afterschool kids - but I would like to expand it to classroom use.
I need games that are under 30 ...
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