Benefits of chess
Chess Makes Kids Smarter
Chess lovers have long contended that chess should be a valuable classroom tool. It can provide an intellectually stimulating, rewarding activity, but it can also teach discipline, concentration, planning and all the other good things that go into successful chess.
Chess is fun and exciting, offering wonderful opportunities to grow a child’s self respect and build valuable social skills. Encouraging kids to study the game of chess is a great move you can make as a parent. Kids that are mentally gifted as well as children with lesser abilities and those that struggle in school will all benefit from the challenging game.
Chess levels the playing field and allows every child an opportunity to succeed. With encouragement from parents and coaches, children will catch the spirit and eagerly embrace this game, desiring to excel and looking forward to chess competitions.
Chess will not only help a child in school, it will help them in life! As a child learns and studies chess, he or she will be exercising and creating disciplines of the mind while expanding mathematical and calculative abilities. The child will also be learning patience, planning, consequences, and balance of time, resources and other essential life skills.
To sum it all up, playing chess makes kids smarter by learning many skills such as focusing, visualizing, and thinking ahead, weighing options, concretely analysing, abstract thinking, and planning. These skills are not specific to chess but still it’s all part of the game. The chess game becomes a teaching tool that stimulates the mind of the kids as well as helps them build these skills while having fun and enjoying themselves. The result of this is that kids can become more of critical thinkers, better problem solvers. And a more independent decision makers.
Many schools across Australia, Canada, Europe and the United States have been educating chess inside the classrooms. They are not particularly labeling chess as an extracurricular activity but rather as an educational subject. Since 20th century the Russians have conquered the world of chess. Why is it so? Perhaps, it’s for the reason that chess has been treated as an academic subject in majority of the schools in Russian for almost 50 years now.
Here are the key features of Chess School SA chess course:
Time: One hour, during school hours or after school.
Curriculum: The moves of the pieces, exercises on mate, analysing a complete game, some theory in each lesson gradually reduced in favor of exercises and games, chess tournament within the school, participation in Interschool tournaments and Transfer chess.
Chess School SA has everything you need to begin or enhance your chess program!
If you would like to run chess in your school or organisation by yourself you are welcome to use our free resources, and if you need chess playing equipment you can visit our online chess shop.
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