Two Castles
Two Castles is a children's book by Garrett Gillin that introduces young readers to chess — the pieces, the patience, and the habit of thinking several moves ahead.
I wrote Two Castles because chess taught me how to think before it taught me how to play, and that's a transferable skill worth handing to a kid early.
Chess rewards the things that are hard to teach directly: sitting with a problem, considering a move you don't like, accepting that a strong position is worth more than a captured piece. Children pick those habits up through play far more readily than through instruction.
The same instinct runs through my work in franchise marketing — position first, tactics second. More about Garrett.
