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Valuable Community Participant: I love to play chess! We play chess in room H-7 during lunch on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Valuable Community Participant: I love to play chess! We play chess in room H-7 during lunch on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Skillful Thinker: Chess is all about analyzing, evaluating, and applying your knowledge.
Skillful Thinker: Chess is all about analyzing, evaluating, and applying your knowledge.
Chess Resources
Chess Resources
Here is a sample video from a chess master. He starts with beginner fundamentals and takes you through advanced topics.
Chess tactics is a very important skill to develop as the middle game can make or break you.
Don't have a clue how to play chess? Know how to move pieces, but don't know about en passant or castling rules? Already a good player? There's a lesson for you. :)
Research on Benefits of Chess
Research on Benefits of Chess
Research has shown that students who played chess had progressed significantly in the following areas: self-satisfaction, self-confidence, healthy, joyful, identifying problems, thinking of alternatives, assessing alternatives, confident performance, review, satisfaction with the teacher and school, enjoying studying, good behavior, peaceful attitudes, respecting rules, and broad sociability.
Chess Tournament
Chess Tournament
Here is a video showing the chess tournament I co-hosted at my old school. I can't wait to do a tournament here, at our school!
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