Chess as mental training

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De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde
in Manila learning and playing chess tactics as mental training.

There are efforts to use the game of

AI) studies, because it represents the domain in which expert performance has been most intensively studied and measured.[1]

New York–based Chess-In-The-Schools, Inc.[2] has been active in the public school system in the city since 1986. It currently reaches more than 30,000 students annually. America's Foundation for Chess has initiated programs in partnership with local school districts in several U.S. cities, including Seattle, San Diego, Philadelphia, and Tampa. The Chess'n Math Association promotes chess at the scholastic level in Canada. Chess for Success is a program for at-risk schools in Oregon.[3] Since 1991, the U.S. Chess Center in Washington, D.C. teaches chess to children, especially those in the inner city, "as a means of improving their academic and social skills."

Research

Research has shown that chess can have a positive impact on meta-cognitive ability and mathematical problem-solving in children,[4] which is why several local governments, schools, and student organizations all over the world are implementing chess programs.

There are a number of experiments that suggest that learning and playing chess aids the mind. The Grandmaster Eugene Torre Chess Institute in the Philippines, the United States Chess Federation's chess research bibliography, and English educational consultant Tony Buzan's Brain Foundation, among others, continuously collect such experimental results. The advent of chess software that automatically record and analyze the moves of each player in each game and can tirelessly play with human players of various levels, further helped in giving new directions to experimental designs on chess as mental training.

History

As early as 1779

The morals of chess
, advocated such a view, saying:

The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn:

1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action ...

2nd, Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations; ...

3rd, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily...

chess players have superior memory and imagination. Adriaan de Groot concurred with Alfred Binet that visual memory and visual perception are important attributors and that problem-solving ability is of paramount importance. Thus, since 1972, at the collegiate level, the University of Texas at Dallas and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County
both recruit chessplayer-scholars and run scholastic outreach programs in their respective communities.

References

  1. PMID 16942740
    .
  2. ^ [1] chessinschools.org
  3. ^ Chess for Success
  4. ^ Every Kid Should Play Chess. Here's Why. Marc Cressac with Chessily.com
  5. ^ chesscafe.com (pdf): „It is said that Franklin wrote the essay for the amusement of Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy in 1779 during his stay in France.“

External links

  • [2] W. G. Chase,
    H. A. Simon
    : Perception in Chess (1973)
  • [3] USCF Chess Research Bibliography
  • [4] Hampton University Dean finds chess, business make a smart match
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