PARTNER SCHOOL: SUMMER CAMP IN ATHENS

St. Lawrence College

From: Manos Alachouzos,  Athens, Greece

65 LearningChess.net students

It is always a challenge when faced with a class of learners all keen to hone their chess skills or to learn the game of chess, to come up with activities that engage them and at the same time cater to their varying ability levels…

Manos

CHESS TALENTS – BENJI, A SPORTSMAN FROM HUNGARY

Youth European ChampionshipWe introduce Benjamin Gledura (16), from Eger, Hungary in our chess talents series. Benji is a real sportsman who was a ranking leader national swimming champion, winner of the Hungarian youth chess championship five times, European youth champion three times, silver medal winner in the world youth championship and chess Olympiad. The American Bloomberg Magazine voted him in among the 50 most talented children in the world.

PARTNER SCHOOL: INSTITUTION NOTRE DAME, VALENCE, FRANCE

Logo couleur

We will introduce you one of our partner schools time-to-time to give you ideas about scholastic chess through working examples. Institution Notre Dame, in Valence, France was one of the early birds in our Free for Schools Program started in September 2014.

FRENCH SCHOLASTIC CHESS - INSTITUTION NOTRE DAME - LEARNINGCHESS.NET

CHESS CURIOSITIES – THE SHOVER OF GOLD

Frank Marshall playing Stepan Levitsky-Breslau 1912Only one game is known in chess history when after the winning move a ‘shower of gold’ was thrown on the chessboard. Let’s see how all this happened.

Alex Krstulovic, chess prodigy from Hungary

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We introduce Alex Krstulovic, a young chess prodigy from Hungary. We will analyze one of his best intuitive combinations and then you can read Alex’s short bio. Recognized coaches work together with Alex, but he liked LearningChess.net and already solved each lesson.

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