They might be if she's had her hands on it regularly, but that doesn't seem to have happened. She just saw a video. I have the tism and I often find that there's the one true version of something and nothing else will do - but if I trained at first on the cheap child's set, that would likely be the one true chess set due to familiarity. I had to scour the town for the one true broom when mine broke but it cost less than £5 when I found it.