Internet is so predictable. A title with "beating your kid" and you all start arguing about child abuse. Get a life, people!
Beating your kids [in chess]
Internet is so predictable. A title with "beating your kid" and you all start arguing about child abuse. Get a life, people!
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1. If you were playing tennis would you hit a 105mph serve to a child? Would you hit a crushing overhead directly at them? I think not.
2. I mostly coached a high school chess club. The day my students beat me was a great day for them, a sacred day, a memorable day, an affirming day, and a day that I felt like my job was well done. Frankly, since I'm not that good anyway, it was not an uncommon occurrence. I would have masters come into the club and play simuls with the students. When, on occasion, the students won, it generated similar feelings of affirmation.
1. If you were playing tennis would you hit a 105mph serve to a child? Would you hit a crushing overhead directly at them? I think not.
2. I mostly coached a high school chess club. The day my students beat me was a great day for them, a sacred day, a memorable day, an affirming day, and a day that I felt like my job was well done. Frankly, since I'm not that good anyway, it was not an uncommon occurrence. I would have masters come into the club and play simuls with the students. When, on occasion, the students won, it generated similar feelings of affirmation.
No one is injured by being checkmated.
Imagine the TV show Kung Fu. If the Master allowed the kid to grab the pebbles from his hand just to make him feel good, he never would have accomplished anything but would have thought he was a for real Kung Fu master. He would have been killed in his first fight.
I wouldn't admit to child abuse if i were you