Chess ‘should be part of the curriculum’As the Yes2Chess grand final takes place in Hyde Park, MPs in an all-party group call for chess to be made a part of the national curriculum By Josie Gurney-Read, Online Education Editor7:30AM...
2014 European School Chess Champions
Jun 27, 2014 The European School Chess Championships 2014 were held from 13th to 27th June, 2014 in the beautiful city of Kavala, situated on the Bay of Kavala in the northern Greece. The event was open to school...
Mayors encourage kids to play chess
Broward mayors encourage children to check out chessJune 7, 2014|By Erika Pesantes, Sun Sentinel SUNRISE — You would expect silence, but there was no shushing here. There were cheers for chess instead in commission chambers that were abuzz with...
São Paulo Chess in Schools
The Municipal Secretary of Education of São Paulo through his program of Educational Chess Movement, organized the “First International Seminar for Chess in the Schools “. This Chess-in-the –Schools initiative currently has over 50,000 students in approximately 350 schools...
Amazing job by the Chess in Schools organizers in São Paulo
Amazing job by the organizers, Secretaria Municipal de Educação de São Paulo and Xeque & Mate for putting together a 3-day “Chess in Schools” conference, which started with my Simul at CEU Jambeiro http://portalsme.prefeitura.sp.gov.br Chess Daily News from Susan...
Chess in Schools Conference in Armenia
Dear Friends, We are pleased to inform you that an International Conference, entitled “Chess in Schools,” will be held in Yerevan, Armenia from 16-18 October, 2014 organized by the Ministry of Education and Science in conjunction with the Chess...
World domination through chess in education
A checkered history: why Armenia dominates the chess world Amid calls for the UK to embrace chess as an academic subject, chess enthusiasts look to Armenia, the Caucasian state that improbably dominates the chess world. BY ANOOSH CHAKELIAN PUBLISHED...
Broward County to bring chess into the class rooms
Broward elementaries make the move to chessBy Scott Travis, Sun Sentinel8:23 p.m. EDT, May 13, 2014 Broward schools are getting on board with a new strategy to improve student achievement – chess. The school district plans this fall to...
Chess, a solution for education?
Maybe Teach Them Math, Science and ChessBy JAMES WARRENNY Times The 120 elementary school children sat so quietly and intently that you might have assumed this was a mass detention period. But it was chess, not confinement, in an...
Why Chess Should Be Required in U.S. Schools?
Artwork by Mike Magnan Why Chess Should Be Required in U.S. Schools It’s a game that motivates us to win, but also teaches us how to deal with defeat. By Alex Berezow Rook to B8. Checkmate. There’s nothing quite...