TWU workshop touts chess as instructional tool
If you’ve always wanted to be more like Mr. Spock, now’s your chance.
By John P. Meyer
On Friday, Aug. 17 Jerry Nash, scholastic chess director for the U.S. Chess Federation, will hold a workshop at Texas Woman’s University devoted to the use of chess as an instructional tool.
Topics to be discussed include “Coordinating the Five Communities: Implementing Chess as a Teaching Tool” and “The University’s Role in Implementing Chess as a Teaching Tool.” Mr. Nash will also attempt to demonstrate the relationship of chess to math skills, critical thinking and character development. (If he succeeds in this demonstration, it might go a long way toward explaining how I ended up as an underemployed English major who experiences difficulty deciphering DART timetables while plotting ways to get out of jury duty. Which is to say, I don’t do chess…)
The workshop will run from 9 a.m. ’til noon in Hubbard Hall; you may attend for free, but pre-registration is required, so if you want to get in on this character-building opportunity, call 940-898-2211 to register. (Or, you can email sfisher@mail.twu.edu)
May the chess force be with you.
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I am a big supporter of teaching children chess as it has been proven to develop critical thinking skills and help in academic improvement.
I would add that chess is not the only “mind sport” that can further a child’s intellectual development. For example, Checker GM Richard Pask has long taught that game (which is nearly on par with chess…note, I said “nearly”…in terms of tactics, strategy, thinking ahead, planning, etc) to school children in California with great success.
I do not next to nothing of the game “GO.”
I think a concerted effort to teach both chess and checkers (for some might develop a natural talent or liking for one over the other) in schools.
It’s great to hear that more school systems are learning what we chess players have known for so long:
Games that require logic are good for you!:)
Mr. Spock … pointy ears, arch locution, Aspergers … no thanks.
Chess has the disadvantage of the opening which requires too much homework. Didn’t L Polgar use smaller boards for training?
Recommended: De Bono’s L-game as an exerciser for calculation and spatial imagination.
Hi Jerry,
Is there an active chess club in the university? I scan all of the colleges every year and try to get them involved in competitions but I have not heard of this university. If they have an active chess club, could you please direct them to write me or James Stallings?
Nice work!
Gregory Alexander
gregory@tatiana.net