Showing posts with label chess. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chess. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

A day of Chess 24thJune2011

We were in Animasia, an animation studio to get a glimpse of how cartoons are created.
We were ushered into a theatrette to watch their animated cartoon 'Kaki Bola'. Fai brought his magnetic chess set and he and Arian played chess in the dark.
After the show, we went on a tour of the place. Walked up to the third floor and saw a room full of people seated in rows, pretty much like an internet gaming centre. Some were doing sketches, others the speech and soundtrack, another the animation sequence.
They were all hard at work preparing for the launch of their first 3D animation.
We were told the staff that they hired did not need any qualifications besides having the ability to draw.
After the short peek into the world of animators, the boys got back to playing chess.
Chess or was it Checkers over lunch
Chinese Chess at WL's
The 9month old crawler kept wanting to grab the chess pieces. After a few stolen pieces, the boys left the game to play Transformers and resumed the game when baby took an afternoon nap.

The boys surrounding themselves with Chess

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Chess 2June2011


Arian is into chess - chinese chess and english chess as he puts it.
He came for a visit with his chinese chess set and introduced the game to Fai.
Fai couldn't quite get the game and so they went on to play english chess.
The next day, Arian decided to teach me chinese chess. He said he would make it easy for me by giving me 'handicap' and promptly removed 4 pieces and threw in a few helpful, strategic hints.
He then gave a brief overview of the game and showed me how each piece can be moved.
He tried his best to teach me but my grey cells just couldn't remember the chinese characters and the moves each made and after a few exasperated minutes, Arian said "It is ok Aunty Yuling, I think I want to play with Fai now"
Oh Dear... I will try harder next time, Arian.
The few days Fai spent with Arian triggered the Chess Craze and he would now insist we play either chess or draughts with him everyday.
I hear it is similar with Arian too.