10 Reasons to Teach Children How to Play Chess by Loren Weiss presentation

1. 10 Reasons to Teach Children How to Play Chess by Loren
Weiss

2. How to Play Chess
• Children no longer need to choose between playing football
or chess; playing chess has become cool, and a child need not
possess a genius IQ to learn the game and play it well.
• Below are 10 good reasons to expose children to “The Royal
Game.”

3. How to Play Chess for Beginners – Basic Piece Functions

4. Chess Club Improving standardized math and reading tests
scores
1. In the 1990s, researchers in Texas discovered that non-
honors elementary students participating in a school chess
club improved their scores on standardized math and reading
tests between the 3rd and 5th grades at twice the level of non-
chess players.
2. The game provides competition, which fosters interest and
mental alertness. This, in turn, encourages the highest level of
achievement.

5. Developing from Chess
3. With its indefinite number of combinations, chess hones
imagination, creativity, and innovation skills.
4. Chess develops foresight, the capability of predicting the
consequences of actions, and a scientific way of approaching
challenges, such as forming a hypothesis and testing it.

6. Benefits of Chess Study
5. The discipline teaches players to rely on their own
judgment and rewards success, with committed players
recognizing they learn more from their losses than they do
from their victories.
6. Playing chess improves school performance and grades,
increasing concentration, retention ability, patience, and a
student’s attitude toward learning.

7. The Finest Players
7. The ancient game develops logical and strategic thinking to
plan ahead, keep the king safe, and forestall an opponent’s
success.
8. Unlike many other games, chess can bring together the
young and old, short and tall, American and international, and
different genders and races on an even playing field.

8. Chess is a Dynamic Disciple
9. Once you own a chess board, the game costs nothing until
one participates in tournaments, and even then, costs remain
minimal at the amateur level.
10. Unlike other board games, chess never repeats itself; it
always stays interesting and fun.

9. About the author:
• Named one of the top 50 chess players in America in his age
group by the United States Chess Federation, Loren Weiss,
17, attends Stuyvesant High School in New York City.