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Traditional board games such as chess are becoming less popular as video games dominate the leisure time for most children and teenagers.
Playing chess has been shown to have significant positive effects on cognitive development. Playing chess is good for your brain!
One method that game manufacturers employ to try and keep traditional board game popular in today's market is to adapt the traditional designs in innovate ways.
There are many examples of novelty or uniquely designed variations of chess or checkers.
Your task is to re-design, adapt, the traditional game of chess for a new market.
You will use rapid prototyping methods to create a playable chess set.
CAD software available to you will be:
- Tinkercad.com (tutorials here)
- Sketch-up 2014 (tutorials here)
Benefits of Chess.
Chess has long been regarded as a game that can have beneficial effects on learning on development, especially when it is played from a young age. below are some of the most critical benefits that chess can provide to a child:
Develop analytical, synthetic and decision-making skills, which they can transfer to real life.
Learn to engage in deep and thorough chess research which will help them build their confidence in their ability to do academic research.
Help children gain insights into the nature of competition which will help them in any competitive endeavor.
When youngsters play chess they must call upon higher-order thinking skills, analyze actions and consequences, and visualize future possibilities.
In countries where chess is offered widely in schools, students exhibit excellence in the ability to recognize complex patterns and consequently excel in math and science.
Source: Susan Polgar Foundation
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