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| author | Franklin Schmidt <fschmidt@gmail.com> |
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| date | Sun, 02 Apr 2023 10:30:03 -0600 |
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--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/src/GOFORKIDS.html Sun Apr 02 10:30:03 2023 -0600 @@ -0,0 +1,117 @@ +<html> + +<!-- Mirrored from users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/GOFORKIDS.html by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2014], Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:52:18 GMT --> +<head> +<title>All artwork by SEHO KIM.</title> +</head> +<body text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#551a8b" alink="#ff0000" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"> + +<p><hr> + +<br wp="br1"><br wp="br2"> +<p><strong>My New Primer GO FOR KIDS</strong> + +<p><strong>© 2002, 2009 Milton N. Bradley</strong> + +<p><img src="Cover.gif" align="left" >Providing what I deeply believe is the answer to the centuries +old and heretofore unsuccessful quest for an ideal mechanism +for learning Go, especially by children, I'm pleased to +announce the publication by <a href="http://www.yutopian.com/go"><strong>Yutopian</strong></a> <a href="http://www.yutopian.com/go"></a> of my new primer GO +FOR KIDS (ISBN 1-889554-74-X) as of Monday, Sept 17, 2001. + +<p>There are a number of Go primers already in print, so it is +logical to ask why yet another is needed and what mine +provides that is different and better. The answer lies in both the +special audience for which GO FOR KIDS is designed and its +novel presentation. + +<p>As a Chessmaster and member of the world famous Marshall +Chess Club in New York I first learned to play Go 52 years +ago (!), and have been teaching beginners and thinking deeply about their perceptual and learning +problems ever since. The hard won insights gleaned over these five decades were both +augmented and refined during the course of the 8 years of my recently concluded after school Go +program in the South Huntington School District, during which I taught Go to over 700 children, +primarily in the third through fifth grades. In the resulting epiphany, I became acutely aware of +both the children's characteristic and unique perceptual/learning problems, as well as the serious +deficiencies in addressing them inherent in all the existing "conventional" Go primers. + +<p>Since the rudiments of Go are invariant, the core material presented in any primer must +necessarily be pretty much the same. But finding a way to make that presentation both attractive +to and comprehensible by children is the critically important problem that I believe that GO +FOR KIDS uniquely solves! Perhaps equally important, while most of the extant Go primers +more or less satisfactorily address the essential issues of the "what" and "how"of Go, I believe +that only GO FOR KIDS also satisfactorily explains the almost equally important "why"! + +<p>The attractiveness and clarity of presentation of GO FOR KIDS derives from its unique use of +427 cartoon strip panels of question-and-answer dialogues between instructor and students, +which augment its 340 conventional Go diagrams and their accompanying explanatory text. + +<p>GO FOR KIDS is written for children of about age 12 (sixth grade) and up, because the nature +and inherent complexity of Go concepts require at least that level of reading skill, vocabulary and +reasoning ability. But it can also be used quite satisfactorily by even much younger children with +some assistance from older siblings or parents. + +<p><strong>IMPORTANT!</strong> Although GO FOR KIDS is uniquely child-friendly, it is nevertheless a +complete, incisive and insightful presentation of the rudiments of Go suitable for the intelligent +adult. It does use cartoon panels to convey many of its most important insights, but this is no +more "childish" than is the conveying of their pithy social commentary via the same cartoon +mechanism by such well known and widely respected "comic strips" as Peanuts, Dilbert, and +Doonesbury. The result of its unique approach is that GO FOR KIDS succeeds where most Go +primers fail in making this greatest of all strategic board games accessible to the "average" +person, while still providing the depth of content desired by the most apt and/or technically +sophisticated beginner. + +<p>To provide some idea of the efficacy of its unique presentation, the entire INTRODUCTION to +GO FOR KIDS is reproduced below. The only change from the book is that here these panels are +in their original full color, while the first edition of the book was printed in black & white to +minimize costs and resultant selling price! + +<p><img src="Intro1.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro2.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro3.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro4.gif" align="middle" > +<img src="Intro5.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro6.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro7.gif" align="middle" > <img src="Intro8.gif" align="middle" > +<img src="Intro9.gif" align="middle" > + +<br wp="br1"><br wp="br2"><h2 align="center"><strong>All artwork by SEHO KIM</strong>.</h2> + +<p>To find out more about this talented young artist and/or to utilize his services, visit <a href="http://www.kimseho.com/">Seho Kim's +web page.</a> Because of all of the artwork contained therein the page load slowly, but it's worth the +wait!!!! Enjoy! + +<p>Throughout the book "comic strip" dialogue panels like these provide a much needed context for +the material being presented (almost entirely missing in other Go primers) while answering the +children's most frequently asked questions. The result is that deep rather than superficial +comprehension and learning can take place. They also provide a familiar and pleasurable +child-friendly format as well as "built in" breaks from the more formal tutorial material, and this +makes GO FOR KIDS far easier and more pleasurable for children to read than the conventional +text-and-diagram-only approach used by all prior Go primers. + +<p>I am acutely aware that no presentation can possibly completely satisfy the perceived needs and +preferences of all potential users, but it is my honest belief that GO FOR KIDS goes far further +in this regard than anything extant, and most of those who have seen it agree. But ultimately the +only judgment that counts is yours, and the only way that you can make that judgment +objectively and accurately is to read GO FOR KIDS yourself. It's available directly from<a href="http://www.yutopian.com/go"><strong> +Yutopian</strong></a> , Barnes & Noble, Amazon, or your local bookseller. After you've read it, I'm +confident that you will want each of your children, students, friends and relatives to obtain a +copy of their own as well! + +<p>Finally, it's important to reiterate that although GO FOR KIDS was created specifically for the +juvenile reader it's a complete, coherent presentation of the essential rudiments of Go that will +not insult the intelligence of an adult. So if you or anyone you know has heretofore been unable +to develop interest in the world's premiere strategic board game or has had difficulty learning it, +GO FOR KIDS might just provide the long sought breakthrough! + +<P ALIGN="CENTER"><STRONG>Click Here To RETURN To <A HREF="MBGoHist.html"><FONT COLOR="#0033ff">My Personal Go History</STRONG></FONT></A></P> + +<P ALIGN="CENTER"><STRONG>Click Here To Go To <A HREF="NewProverbsSample.html"><FONT COLOR="#0033ff">NEW GO PROVERBS ILLUSTRATED</STRONG></FONT></A></P> + +<P ALIGN="CENTER"><STRONG>Click Here To Go To <A HREF="ImproveFastIndex.html"><FONT COLOR="#0033ff">Improve Fast In Go </STRONG></FONT></A></P> +<p ALIGN="CENTER"><strong>Click Here To Go To <a href="LearnChessFastSample.html"><FONT COLOR="#0033ff">Learn Chess Fast </strong></font></a></p> + + +<p>Click Here To Return To<a href="index.html"><strong><FONT COLOR="#0033ff"> Milt's Go Page</strong></a></font></p> + +<p><hr> + +</body> + +<!-- Mirrored from users.eniinternet.com/bradleym/GOFORKIDS.html by HTTrack Website Copier/3.x [XR&CO'2014], Sun, 06 Nov 2022 06:52:43 GMT --> +</html>