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# What happens when a little girl "reinvents" chess?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/what-happens-when-a-little-girl-reinvents-chess/
- Published: 2011-04-26T18:26:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:55:14.000Z
- Description: Over at Geek Dad UK, a father mixes things up with his daughter and let’s her make up some of the rules. The results are exciting/inspiring: Although inspired by her introduction to chess the day before, her game was fresh and creative — it was different in ways that an adult steeped in chess would
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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Over at Geek Dad UK, a father mixes things up with his daughter and l[et’s her make up some of the rules](http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/19/geekdad-fixes-chess?ref=killscreen.com). The results are exciting/inspiring:

> Although inspired by her introduction to chess the day before, her game was fresh and creative — it was different in ways that an adult steeped in chess would be unlikely to trespass. There was a “doctor” piece who gives invulnerability to any adjacent piece; a “replacer” piece that, if landed upon, permits the team to trade an existing piece for a taken piece; and “civilian” pieces who have no power, but serve to impede movement.  
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> So, on the one hand we have my daughter’s irreverence to a great institution (“bad girl!”). But on the other hand we have an innovation of her own (“good girl!”). And then it struck me: One of the keys to her inventiveness was her irreverence.

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