by Neil Dietsch | Jan 28, 2020 | Chess in Education, International
A Book Review by Jerry Nash At the London Chess Conference last month, GM Jonathan Rowson made an appearance to promote his latest book, The Moves That Matter: A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life (Bloomsbury, 2019). The work is partly biographical, chronicling...
by Neil Dietsch | Jan 28, 2020 | Chess in Education - US
NOTE: In October’s FOCIS newsletter, Nancy Johnson reviewed an article about the Russian schoolteacher Tatiana Ogneva and her unique approach of using fairy tales to introduce chess themes to her students. In this article we hear directly from Ms. Ogneva as she...
by Neil Dietsch | Jan 28, 2020 | Chess in Education - US
Tatiana Ogneva describes her teaching methodology (she uses the term “technology”) developed over ten years as a teacher and school psychologist in a Moscow primary school. The experience of work in RDE classes gave me an important understanding that children’s...
by Neil Dietsch | Dec 29, 2019 | Chess in Education, International, US
The 2019 London Chess Conference was an incredible opportunity to learn about the global chess community’s efforts to engage and sustain girl chess players. Girls To Grandmasters (G2GM), a New York City 501(c)(3), was one of the 38 international delegations hosted at...
by Neil Dietsch | Nov 28, 2019 | Chess in Education - US
November 28, 2019 – As much pride as we take in the courses that Chess in Schools has developed for teachers, we are always keen to discover how other experts in the Chess in Education (CIE) field conduct teacher training. Part 2 of this article discusses the...