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I Love My Mistakes
20/04/2024 By Ilker Pazarcioglu, Member of FIDE EDU Whenever I hear the opening lyrics of Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble," which goes "Once...
Read more here >>How I Use Chess In Primary Mathematics Lessons
05/04/2024 by FIDE Lead School Instructor Jose Antonio Coleto Calderón Within the project "The Colours of Chess", activities related to...
Read more here >>The Case for Chess as a School Subject
26/03/2024 By Victoria Winifred In today’s educational landscape, where emphasis on STEM subjects like coding is growing, it’s crucial to recognize...
Read more here >>Introducing Skakkens Hus – The Brain Fitness Center
By Boris Bruhn Skakkens Hus opened in autumn 2023. The center offers excellent facilities for accommodating school classes and kindergarten groups...
Read more here >>Why Can’t We Introduce Chess as a Subject in Schools?
By Jerry Nash, Chairman of FIDE EDU I saw this question in a social media post recently. It is attributed to WCM Charvi Anikumar, the Under-8 Girls...
Read more here >>Teaching and Learning
by Renate Otterbach Introduction My prior blogs focused on differences in encoding processes among students. We also discussed the strengths and...
Read more here >>Why I Want My Child to Play Chess
by Jim Egerton Jim Egerton teaches business leaders the benefits of playing chess with his company, Business on the Board. He shares this wonderful...
Read more here >>Desired Profile for the Chess Teacher (2nd part)
by Dr. Uvencio Blanco Hernández The author considers that the "profile" of the chess teacher should be defined, in which the requirements of...
Read more here >>Desired Profile for the Chess Teacher (1st part)
by Dr. Uvencio Blanco Hernández The chess teacher, teacher or instructor seen as a mediator One of the most important actors in the chess...
Read more here >>On the Aims of Educational Chess
by Dr. Uvencio Blanco Hernández Chess stimulates executive functions Research indicates that children who practice chess show better...
Read more here >>The school, forger of new citizens
by Dr. Uvencio Blanco Hernández Chess lesson in a Guyana school, 2023 School promotes values In order to come closer to an adequate answer,...
Read more here >>How to Improve at Chess or at Any Hobby?
by Ilker Pazarcioglu FIDE EDU Commission This article is mainly for adults who have a passion for a hobby and want to improve in that hobby. I used...
Read more here >>Two Types of Transfer and Their Characteristics
By Renate Otterbach Salomon and Perkins described two types of transfer and their potential benefits in their article. They labeled them as low and...
Read more here >>Understanding Plateaus-and How to Beat Them
By Renate Otterbach It happens to all of us. We are going along well, and suddenly we get stuck; it does not matter if our rating is 1000 or 2000, or...
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