General Benefits of Chess

Chess is a game of imagination and strategy, one that provides rules, order and opportunities for intellectual growth. Being an effective educational tool at all levels of academic achievement, chess teaches students to think logically and take responsibility for their actions and consequences.

Chess demonstrates a positive impact on academic performance and emotional intelligence. Evidence indicates that children develop an improved attitude toward school, better attendance, increased self-confidence and respect for others. Chess enhances problem solving, logic and reasoning skills. It teaches the students how to organize their work habits, increases levels of patience and persistence and even improves emotional control along with mood management. Studies have shown that kids who play chess as a school activity score higher on standardized tests than kids who don't. Better grades in math and reading will come along with your kid's next game.

Chess has been proven to enhance creativity, concentration, critical thinking skills, memory, cultural enrichment and intellectual maturity giving the student core qualities that every administrator, school board director, parent and teacher desires.