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The LogiQ Board is a much needed smart demonstration board that is developed according to the trends of modern chess education.

It can not only be used to play chess, but students can also enjoy the built-in playful logical elements.

With LogiQ Board you can create a virtually infinite number of chess and logic exercises for children. The built-in smart elements that connect on the board,  the possibilities to add numbers, arrows, lines, fairy and checker (draughts) pieces bring the teaching and learning experience to a new level.

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The first Slovak Puzzle Contest was organized by the Slovak Chess Federation and LearningChess was successfully finished. Scholastic teams and individuals were fighting for the prizes.

The participants had to gather all possible badges, and as many Trophy points as they can in the LearningChess Tactics Trainer. These have proven a daunting task…

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Hello Chess Fan,

You’ve probably been receiving lots of emails from companies notifying you of updates to privacy policies because of changes to EU data protection laws (GDPR).

We’ve also updated our Privacy Policy to:

• Give you more clear and detailed information about your collective rights and responsibilities with respect to your privacy and personal information.
• Make it easier for you to control the information you provide us. You’ll see that our policy explains your choices about this.
• Provide more detail about the measures we have in place to keep your personal information secure.

You can read the full text of our Privacy Policy here.

The updated Privacy Policy automatically comes into effect for all LearningChess users on 25 May 2018. So your continued use of the LearningChess sites from that date will be subject to it.

Thanks again for being part of the LearningChess community!

LearningChess introduced a new puzzle statistics module, which is accessible in the My Progress menu.

Of course, teachers can also closely follow the puzzle solutions submitted by their students in the Learning Management System.

“Chess is 99% tactics” – said Richard Teichmann, 19^th century German Grandmaster, and he was right – not literally but …

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We are happy to let you know that LearningChess is first on the ‘17 Best Online Chess Courses, Schools & Degrees’ list prepared by onlinecoursesreview.org in January 2018. We are glad that the work that we do is recognized in this review as well, and we are hoping to bring you many more interesting lessons and puzzles in the future.

We would also like to thank you all for enabling LearningChess to become one of the top organic search results in different search engines (e.g. ‘online chess course’ #1 in Google).

Teachers usually do not know the rules of chess nowadays, at least not on a deep level. Read an instructive article from Ms. Shirmeena Faheem, Deputy Principal of the Ghiyasuddin International School, Malé, Maldives, how they successfully solved this problem during the last few years in a large scholastic chess project with 20+ teachers and 600+ students, in cooperation with LearningChess.

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Chess got more focus in early years development. Now we would like to introduce an interesting method from the Alfiere Bianco sports company in Italy.

Five and six year old children are using a giant chess board to help develop their psychomotor skills. By playing music and movement-based games on the board, children learn about directions, numbers, letters, listening to and following instructions, and working as a team.

The complete curriculum, videos, sample lessons, and other interesting details can be found on the FIDE Early Years Skills website.

“My son, Vyom Shivmath secured the second place in the Under-6 category of i-Land Monsoon chess tournament. After each winning match he was telling me: I used the strategy shown in the lessons and puzzles to win the game…”

Update: Vyom won gold medal in his next tournament in U7 Category.

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The ACT Chess Association will be hosting the 25^th ANU Chess Open tournament at the Australian National University on 29 and 30 July 2017. 65 entrants are expected to compete in the tournament across two divisions, the open and under 1600 divisions.

An interesting political aspect of the event is the participation of Mr. Michael Pettersson MLA at the tournament.

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We gladly inform you that we opened our new Chess, Logic, Math and English language online cross-curriculum for kids aged 4-8. Kids do not need to register to enjoy the playful lessons, and of course our site is 100% child safe and advertisement free. While our mission is to popularize chess – both as a game and personal development tool – all over the world, the course is absolutely free for kids.

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