ChessKid's Holiday Gift Guide🎁
Make This Holiday Season Extra Special! ✨
ChessKid's Holiday Gift Guide is here! If you're looking for the perfect gift for your chess kid, you’ll find some awesome options below! There’s a holiday sale on ChessKid’s Gold membership, fun cameos with FunMasterMike, a ChessUp 2 Smart Board, and some fantastic chess books for kids and parents.
❄️ Holiday Special: Give 20% Off Gold! 🎁
Enjoy 20% off a Yearly Gold Membership this holiday season, including unlimited lessons, puzzles, videos, bots, and much more! 🎓🧩🤖
🐱 🐶 ChessKid Pets are here for the holidays! Experience these festive bots this December – exclusively for Gold members!
❄️ FunMasterMike on Cameo!
👏 Did you ever want a personalized message to your child from FunMasterMike himself? Now you can! He's on Cameo, a site that allows you to connect with celebrities to create a custom video. FunMasterMike brings jokes, inspiration, and fun to the videos he records for kids. Cameos are booked directly through the Cameo site or you can go directly to cameo.com/funmastermike.
🙌 Play Chess.com on a Real Board
We’ve got some exciting news! We’ve teamed up with ChessUp to bring you the awesome ChessUp 2, a smart chess set that connects right to Chess.com. Get ready to take your chess game to a whole new level!
📦 Get a Build Box!
Unleash your child's inner engineer with a CrunchLabs Build Box. Learn alongside NASA Engineer Mark Rober and get two boxes FREE with an annual subscription.
🎉 How About a Rubik's Cube
It's been 50 years since the Rubik's Cube made its debut! That's half a century of endless twisting and turning with 43 quintillion possible combinations, but only one solution! The Rubik's Cube has challenged and inspired over a billion people worldwide. And the coolest part? It's perfect for chess kids! 💚
📚 Searching for Some Book Recommendations in the ChessKid Shop?
Here are some fantastic starter options:
❄️ Winning Chess Strategy for Kids is an engaging chess course for kids ages 7 to 13! With original content and fun artwork, it’s a great way to learn chess. Parents and teachers will love it too!
❄️ Winning Chess Exercises for Kids teaches you all about essential strategies in an easy-to-follow format. Delightful cartoon characters make the lessons extra enjoyable!
✨Fun fact!✨ FunMasterMike regularly used Jeff Coakley’s books when he taught chess in schools.
👀 Looking for Something Interactive?
These workbooks are for you!
❄️ Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess explores how to think like him! Start with the basics and build your skills while having fun with his unique strategies.
✨Fun fact!✨ This was the very first book FunMasterMike owned, which he won in a tournament at age 5!
❄️ What sets The Chess Tactics Workbook apart from all the other tactics guides is that it’s written by a teacher for teachers! Bonus – this book has the most puzzles per page of any book!
❄️ How to Beat Your Dad at Chess is excellent for anyone who keeps losing games! It covers 50 checkmate patterns for all skill levels, with clear explanations and helpful examples.
📗 Interested in Adult Chess Books?
Here’s some superb recommendations! FYI, they’re also kid-friendly.
❄️ Sunrise in the Bronx by David MacEnulty shares his amazing journey from a substitute teacher to a well-loved chess coach. With the help of a great team, he teaches his students about chess and how it reflects life's ups and downs, making the game super fun and meaningful!
✨Fun fact!✨ The author David MacEnulty trained FunMasterMike on how to teach chess at the very beginning of his career!
❄️ The Chess Revolution explores how the game has become a cultural phenomenon by shaping pop culture, the arts and science, star players, and dramatic moments. It also explains how chess has gained mainstream momentum in the digital age.
Happy gifting chess families and friends! 🎁 🎉