On Thu, 20 May 2004 22:15:29 +0100, "Driel" wrote:

Can anyone recommend a chess programme for Playstation 2 which could both
teach him, and act as his opponent?

It's second time I've mentioned it the past few days, but I think
Chessmaster is definitely the way to go. In fact, I'm not entirely sure
that there is anything else available for the PS2 on the chess front,
but that doesn't detract from the fact that chessmaster's interactive
tutorials seem to be widely touted by people who know far more about the
subject than me as being a very, very good way of learning to play
chess.

Maybe you could run through the tutorials yourself and learn to play
chess with your son. After all, there's probably a reason that it has
been one of the most popular two-player games for several centuries, so
maybe you're missing out!

I have nothing to do with Chessmaster other than being a satisfied user
of the Windows version of it, by the way. I've only been playing
"seriously" for a few weeks, but a combination of chessmaster, lots of
practice, and a couple of good chess books has seen me progress faster
than I could have hoped.

Kind regards,
Chris.
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Chris Cowley