540 STUDENTS AND 20 TEACHERS USE LEARNINGCHESS IN Maldives
LearningChess partner school, Ghiyasuddin International School proudly inaugurates the extremely complex and well-structured program ‘Chess’ and have found the way to integrate Chess into the curriculum, as the first school to do this in Maldives. LearningChess serves 540 students and 20 teachers in this new project.
Where the grandmasters are born
Do you know what the young Magnus Carlsen, Hou Yifan, Fabio Caruana and Hikaru Nakamura had in common? All of these chess prodigies fought for the GM norms in the famous ‘First Saturday’ chess tournaments. Let’s see some unique photos and results from the First Saturday tournament archive.
More chess in schools can help lift economic growth, says John Adams
Kings, queens and bishops are part of the solution to Australia’s 21st century economic challenges, but not the monarchical or religious variety — chess, if more widely played, has the potential to boost innovation and economic growth, according to one avid player.
John Adams – Picture: Kym Smith
Management consultant and former political adviser John Adams. ‘Chess improves cognitive ability and that in turn has strong relationship with economic growth’.
CHECKMATING ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE – LEARNINGCHESS IN NURSING HOMES PROGRAM
Various studies show that cognitive activities and brain trainings – such as learning and playing chess online – could, indeed, slow or stop dementia and Alzheimer’s, and could also help people with everyday tasks such as shopping and cooking.
Read more how we can help elderly people with our new ‘LearningChess in Nursing Homes’ program in 2016.
CHESS CURIOSITIES – BLINDFOLD SIMULTANEOUS GAME RECORDS BY ALEKHINE
Alekhine is known for his fierce and imaginative attacking style, combined with great positional and endgame skill. But he is also known for his simultaneous blindfold game records.
COUNTRYWIDE SCHOLASTIC CHESS COOPERATION WITH THE CZECH CHESS FEDERATION
The Czech Chess Federation has started a cooperation with LearningChess. The aim of the cooperation is to ensure a centrally managed, countrywide access to online chess education material and tools for Czech primary school teachers and students. The LearningChess method will also be used in the training of chess circles for children registered under the Czech Chess Federation.”
CENTRAL LEARNING MANAGEMENT WITH TALENT SPOTTING
It seems natural that School Districts or Chess Federations would like more control and more insight into the learning process of their schools and chess circles. The new Central Management system of LearningChess makes this possible, online, making talent spotting is easier than ever before.
NEW ONLINE CHESS, MATH, LOGIC AND ENGLISH CROSS CURRICULUM FOR PRE-SCHOOLS AND BILINGUAL SCHOOLS
LearningChess introduces the new Chess, Math, Logic & English Learning cross-curriculum on the Online Educa Conference Berlin, December 2-4, 2015
It is a voiced, interactive tutor with simple chess, logic, mathematical tasks and English learning features meets the requirements of the Common European Framework of Reference.
Rita Atkins, Partner Coach: Teaching children who differ in age and chess ability
I am coaching chess in various schools in and around Cambridge UK. As I used to be a competitive chess player myself, getting hold of teaching materials has never really been a problem for me. Add in a projector and a laptop with Chessbase installed and I was ready to go in any classroom. I was not actively looking for new teaching aids so how come I fell in love with the online tutor LearningChess.net?
INTER UNIVERSITY CHESS TOURNAMENT IN MELBOURNE
A chess tournament between universities has not taken place in Australia in over a decade, but with the help of sponsors and enthusiastic work of the organizers the chess clocks have started in Melbourne recently. We can only earnestly thank LearningChess.net for helping make it happen!
Report from Louka Ewington-Pitsos, Melbourne, Australia