So you've just begun to play chess. You're starting to get the basic idea; however, you're noticing that many things are happening that you just don't see coming. You might get seemingly randomly checkmated by a long-range operator...
Just recently, a friend of mine came to me with a question. This friend had been hired to babysit for a relative, though she didn't really know what she was doing. She said, "What would you say would be some good activities for the child?...
