Chess has the rare quality that children love it despite the fact that it is good for them.
Playing chess is just like life: you have to make plans take decisions be creative deal with
challenges handle disappointments interact with others and evaluate your actions.Psychologist
and chess teacher Karel van Delft has spent a large part of his life studying the benefits of
chess in education. In this guide he provides access to the underlying scientific research and
presents the didactical methods to effectively apply these findings in practice.Van Delft has
created a dependable toolkit for teachers and scholastic chess organizers. What can teachers do
to improve their instruction? How (un)important is talent? How do you support a special needs
group? How do you deal with parents? And with school authorities? What are the best selling
points of a chess program? Boys and girls does it make a difference? How do 'chess in schools'
programs fare in different countries?This is not a book on chess rules with lots of moves and
diagrams but it points the way to where good technical chess improvement content can be found.
Van Delft offers a wealth of practical advice on how to launch and present a chess program and
how to apply the most effective didactics in order for kids to build critical life skills
through learning chess.
