Actually he and my husband visited the local tournament I was at last weekend. It's a small tournament but there were several kids there (one of them beat me ). He was very interested and wanted to play too. I told him he could when he's grown up a bit


I'm really not trying to insist on the won / lost logic for now. That's not how he learns, and that's not how he enjoys playing. There will be quite enough time to introduce the competitive aspect of the game. For now capturing stones is just funny. It's neither "won" nor "lost". Just learning how to capture is already quite good at his age.

A gentle reminder, for anyone who missed earlier posts,
he is 3.5 years old.

( Of course, that is changing every second as we type. )

I'm assuming that this is quite casual and experimentive, and not going in the direction of hardcore military training programs. But yeah, I suppose exposure, in the sense of seeing it being played around him might get him interested once he gets bigger. Get Go curtains, and paint Go patterns on the wall in his bedroom!

You assume correctly
I rarely ever suggest playing around with CGoban or my go set to my kid. He usually bugs me himself to do it. Sometimes because he sees me reviewing a game or something, sometimes because he just comes to the idea on his own. On several occasions he even turned to go instead of an episode of Maya the Bee and that's saying something
When he wants to do something else, we move on to another game.

I only try to find roundabout ways he can learn something about the game while he's enjoying himself.

I don't advise hardcore military training programs with 3 year olds. You'll break before they do...