Jerguš, šachový talent zo Slovenska

Jergus Pechac the young Slovak chess talent

V tejto novovytvorenej sekcii Vám predstavujeme Jerguša Pecháča, jeden z najväčších šachových talentov na Slovensku. Môžete si prečítať o Jergušovej doterajšej šachovej kariére, jeho vzťahu k šachu, alebo si pozrieť mnoho jeho partií na videu.

Je pravda, že šach robí deti bystrejšími?

Som veľmi rád, že vyučovanie šachu v škôlkach a školách je stále viac rozšírené, napriek tomu si stále veľa ľudí kladie túto otázku. Pozrime sa, čo je na tom pravdy. Pred vytvorením tohto vyučovacieho šachového programu sme detailne skúmali tento problém a preštudovali súvisiace vedecké štúdie, ktoré sú už, našťastie, dostupné pre

CHESS CURIOSITIES – MONUMENTAL HUMAN CHESS

Our Illustrated Chess History series was very welcome. Unfortunately, we had to leave out a lot from the certain parts, because it would have been too long for anyone to read it through. But I decided on starting a similar series named Chess Curiosities, in which I will try to gather the most interesting chess related happenings. Receive the first part tenderly.

Human Chess in Petrograd, Palace square, 1924 - kids learn chess here too

CHESS TALENTS – JERGUS FROM SLOVAKIA

Jergus Pechac the young Slovak chess talent

We introduce Jergus Pechac, one of the greatest talents of Slovakia first in our new chess talents series. You can read about Jergus’s career, his relation to chess, or watch many games on video played by him.

The Illustrated History of Chess 2 – The Middle Ages

We reached the Middle Ages, which is also called the Dark Ages, in my discoveries concerning the origin and history of chess.  But was it really dark everywhere? Let’s have a look at it from the aspect of chess.

Arab plays Chess with a Spaniard in the Middle Ages

Arab plays Chess with a Spaniard

HOW CAN TEACHERS USE LEARNINGCHESS.NET IN THE SCHOOLS?

The invitation to the Chess and Mathematics Conference in London, 6-7 December 2014 is an outstanding opportunity to inform the teachers, schools and students in wider circle about LearningChess.Net. The timing is the best – we have just launched the Android App and the number of students in our Free for Schools Program is dynamically growing.

Is it True that Chess Makes Kids Smarter?

To my greatest pleasure, teaching chess in kindergartens and schools is more and more widespread, still, a lot of people ask this question. Let’s see what the truth may be.

SmartGirlPlayingChessWhen we worked out our online chess tutor we thoroughly analyzed this problem and studied the relevant scientific research papers, which are already available for everyone on the Internet, fortunately.  Now, I would like to summarize these methodologically and make them clearer through examples.  I do hope that after reading this blog entry even more people will take a liking to teaching – and of course, learning – chess.

The Illustrated History of Chess 1 – Origin and Early Times

I still remember that the first time I played chess with my father, he told me the famous legend about the origins of chess. The tale was about an Indian wise man, who, after showing his new game to the Emperor was granted a single wish. What he wished for, was quite interesting. A single grain of wheat on the first square of the board, two on the second, four on the third, and so on, with each square having two times as many grains of wheat as the previous one. Of course, as those familiar with this Math problem already know, the Emperor could not follow through on his promise. There simply wasn’t that much wheat in the world.

Wheat and chessboard problem