Chess+Club

The ** Chess Club ** is offered to students in grades 2-8 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:00-4:00 pm in the cafeteria with Mr. Marshall and Mr. M.


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 * Click the links below to read more about the benefits of playing chess at a young age!

[|"According to research, Test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participatingin other forms of enriched activities," states 4-time World Champion Susan Polgar in a recent interview. In 30 nations across the globe, including Brazil, China,Venezuela, Italy, Israel, Russia and Greece, etc., chess is incorporated into the country's scholastic curriculum. Just as athletics are a part of the required agendaat schools in the United States, Chess has been that way in the European Nations abroad.]**

http://www.psmcd.net/otherfiles/BenefitsOfChessInEdScreen2.pdf John Artise in Chess and Education states: “Visual stimuli tend to improve memory more than any other stimuli;. . . chess is definitely an excellent memory exerciser the effects of which are transferable to other subjects where memory is necessary.”

http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/learn.htm An excellent page with lots of information including chess basics, strategy, history and more.
 * Links**

http://kids.yahoo.com/games/game/chess Play chess against people from all over the world.