by Neil Dietsch | Apr 27, 2020 | Chess in Education - US
By Jerry Nash Both the chess board and the game of chess call attention to the same literacy proficiencies demanded by other forms of media, both print and graphic. These include the following: Visual Orientation Symbolic Language Translation from Two-dimensional to...
by Neil Dietsch | Feb 23, 2020 | Friends of Chess in Schools, International
Article by Luca Gallina Black and White Sport: CHESS was a project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union from January of 2018 until December of 2019. The project involved organizations in four countries: Sport Club Glamour Events (Italy);...
by Neil Dietsch | Feb 23, 2020 | Friends of Chess in Schools, International
Article by Jerry Nash February 23, 2020 – Students at Francisco de Quevedo Primary School in Fuenlabrada, Madrid have discovered a new way to learn math. They learn how to move chess pieces to collect one or more of the math information cards placed on each of...
by Neil Dietsch | Feb 23, 2020 | Friends of Chess in Schools, International
Article by Roger Langen — Secretary, Chess Nova Scotia — February 23, 2020 – Chess is a unique all-ages sport that is finally coming into maturity on this side of the Atlantic. Its Old World traveling ethos, of reason mixed with mystique, moved it...
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...
