How Important can Chess Play in Education?

September 19,2022

What role does chess play in children's education? It is believed that this problem is common to many parents who do not know much about chess. Then, let's take a look at the history and practice that have proved the role of chess reverse.

 

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Chess is an intellectual sport that integrates science, culture, art, and competition. In the process of playing chess, on the one hand, people enjoy leisure and happiness, on the other hand, they also fight wits and courage to show their personality. Long history and countless facts have proved that chess is not only competitive but also artistic and scientific. Learning chess can develop children's understanding and judgment, inspire their imagination, and teach them a bold and creative way of thinking.

 

Lenin, the revolutionary mentor, once compared chess to "intelligent gymnastics". Chen Zude, a famous chess player and president of the Chinese Chess Academy, also likened the image of chess to a "magic wand". Suhomlinski, a famous educator and academician of the former Soviet Academy of Sciences, wrote in his famous book "Devoting the Whole Mind to Children" published in 1969 and translated into more than 10 languages, "Chess is the best school for progressive and logical thinking". "Playing chess can make people think orderly and concentrate their thoughts, but the most important thing here is to enhance their memory. Without the help of chess, it is difficult to fully develop students' intellectual talent and memory. Chess should be included in the teaching program of primary and secondary schools as one of the subjects of intellectual cultivation."

 

In children's education and training, intelligence is the core of cultivating ability. Chess plays an important role in cultivating children's interest, character, belief, cultivation of sentiment, emotion, strong perseverance, will quality, development of nonintellectual factors, etc. It is a special educational means of "combining education with pleasure". Lenin called chess "the gymnastics of human intelligence". Playing chess can enable children to learn to adjust their emotions, improve their psychological endurance, learn to know themselves, recognize success and failure, and cultivate children's discipline and self-control awareness in the process of experiencing success and failure. Experience setbacks in the competition and enhance cooperation ability. Chess and chess can make the five basic factors of intelligence, such as attention, observation, memory, imagination, and thinking, in good unity, and produce creative intelligence and intelligence under the combined effect of various intelligence factors.

 

As a vivid and intuitive international language, chess has the characteristics of sports, art, and science. It can enrich imagination, enhance memory, and cultivate logical thinking ability. As a thinking science, through chess, you can learn the rules of life, such as organization and systematicness, to enhance due discipline, patience, and judgment. In addition, it is also a communication activity, It enhances the friendship between people. It can be said that learning chess is a golden key to developing children's wisdom.

 

The purpose of children's chess training is not only to develop children's intelligence and improve their thinking ability. In addition, through chess training, participants can better understand their abilities, adjust and control their change emotions, and help children form sound personalities.

 

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