Chess in School
What we do in school
- Chess as a part of syllabus by adding chess into the curriculum – Daily class at school timing.
- After school activity – Weekly 2 class after school hours.
- Demo Classes / Chess Workshop on schools.
- Chess awareness program.
- We organize chess tournament in schools.
Chess as a Teaching Tool
- Chess has all the qualities needed to be an excellent teaching tool.
- For maximum benefit, it should be introduced in schools not to develop chess players but to further a child’s development.
- Chess can be used to solve educational problems, especially when used to teach process standards, the ‘Thinking Skills’.
- Chess used, not for the sake of teaching chess, not to create better chess players, but to create more intelligent schools leavers, better adapted to our knowledge-based world; a brighter future for our global society.
Educational benefits of chess
- Chess teaches children to think analytically, logically and on more than one level.
- Chess helps promote intellectual growth and has been shown to improve academic performance.
- Chess is a powerful tool for developing thinking and memory in children.
- It teaches children to think analytically, logically and on more than one level.
- It also helps them build up their decision-making tools. It educates them to be responsible for their decision and the consequences of those decisions.
- Chess enhances cognitive abilities, rational thinking, patience, and reasoning.
- Chess uncovers both a child’s and adult’s hidden abilities and talents.