Chess and Education

Chess and Education
Author: University of Texas at Dallas Chess Program, The
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2006
Genre: Chess
ISBN: 9780978674205

Chess for Educators

Chess for Educators
Author: Karel van Delft
Publisher: New In Chess
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2021-04-02
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9056919431

Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them. Playing chess is just like life: you have to make plans, take decisions, be creative, deal with challenges, handle disappointments, interact with others and evaluate your actions. Psychologist and chess teacher Karel van Delft has spent a large part of his life studying the benefits of chess in education. In this guide he provides access to the underlying scientific research and presents the didactical methods of how to effectively apply these findings in practice. Van Delft has created a dependable toolkit for teachers and scholastic chess organizers. What can teachers do to improve their instruction? How (un)important is talent? How do you support a special needs group? How do you deal with parents? And with school authorities? What are the best selling points of a chess program? Boys and girls, does it make a difference? How do ‘chess in schools' programs fare in different countries? This is not a book on chess rules, with lots of moves and diagrams, but it points the way to where good technical chess improvement content can be found. Van Delft offers a wealth of practical advice on how to launch and present a chess program and how to apply the most effective didactics in order for kids to build critical life skills through learning chess.

Thinking with Chess

Thinking with Chess
Author: Alexey W. Root
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781936277360

Offers information to teachers, librarians, chess coaches, counselors, and parents on teaching chess to groups of children.

Chess for Schools

Chess for Schools
Author: Richard James
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Total Pages:
Release: 2022-07-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781785835971

Presents a new approach to promoting chess in primary schools which, by introducing the concepts through a series of mini games, will enable all children to better understand and enjoy chess.

The Art of Learning

The Art of Learning
Author: Josh Waitzkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2008-05-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0743277465

An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

The Learning Spiral

The Learning Spiral
Author: Kevin Cripe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-11-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781936277889

Will memorizing a mountain of related chess positions help you to learn? Have you spent untold time studying a chess idea and then found that you can't remember it in a game? Education research, says Kevin Cripe, has found that optimal learning is based largely on the structure of problem sets and your brain's ability to understand similarities and differences. In The Learning Spiral, the author contends that you will actually absorb the game's concepts faster with seemingly random but carefully selected puzzles than with traditional, step-by-step teaching techniques. The key is that this is closer to real-life chess play, where nobody tells you the "theme" of the position in front of you. With twenty-five years' experience getting underprivileged kids to achieve beyond all expectations, Cripe now takes his holistic instructional methods to the chess arena. Designed for both chess novices and their coaches, The Learning Spiral sets out the theory, explains how it works, and then applies it with more than 400 positions for the student to solve. So go ahead, analyze, differentiate and improve quickly!

Teaching Chess in the 21st Century

Teaching Chess in the 21st Century
Author: Todd Bardwick
Publisher: Chess Detective Presents
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-10
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780976196204

Teaching Chess in the 21st Century is a designed to incorporate chess into a math curriculum for elementary school students. It includes: *math lessons learned through chess incorporating National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards *exemplars and rubrics for testing student's knowledge and understanding for each lesson *teacher tips to help students as they learn to play chess and how to handle situations that frequently occur *tried and true tested analogies that children will relate to so that they can learn chess in an effective and fun way

Chess is Child's Play

Chess is Child's Play
Author: Laura Sherman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9781936277315

An introduction for parents who wish to teach their young children (ages 2-7) to play chess.

Chess for Kids

Chess for Kids
Author: Jennifer Kemmeter
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, Incorporated
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2022
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780762479382

This engaging workbook introduces kids to the wonderful world of chess--from an explanation of every piece on the board to the fundamentals of the game and strategies to capture pieces and win--all told through fun visuals, mock games, and exciting exercises. Chess for Kids includes: A comprehensive introduction to the king, queen, knights, bishops, rooks, and pawns and how each piece moves, attacks, and defends. Detailed explanations of the basic rules of chess, tactics, strategies, mating patterns, and piece strategies. Write-in, workbook activities to help kids 'learn by doing,' unlike other chess books which are text heavy and not interactive. The best offensive and defensive strategies including how to find weak spots in your opponent's defense and how to close games when most of the board's pieces are gone. Learn the pieces, study the strategies, and checkmate all your opponents in this complete guide to mastering the game of chess!