Our students did a magnificent job competing at the chess tournament today!
Here are some pictures of a few of them from 3 of our 5 schools. We had less than 20 playing today but in March, at the tournament that we host at North Junior High, here in Evansville IN, we usually have over 80 from our schools and 200, from 30 area schools in grades K-12!
In between those tournaments, we will be competing in 4 different Scholastic Chess of Indiana events, including up to 20 that qualify for and play in the State Championships!
Terrific to have these young people competing in the "Sport for the Brain" against real people sitting across the board from them (vs an electronic screen) learning good sportsmanship and other character building skills while challenging themselves and exercising their brains........... as they slowly develop into wonderful adults.
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Speaking of chess, meet one of the best nonagenarian chess players in the country.......my dad at 94 years old!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mg5a2DYyXQ
Dad was always a decent chess player but what makes him an elite chess player now, is that he's lived to 94 and maintained enough cerebral functioning and chess playing skills so that he's outlived most of the players that were better than him a couple of decades ago (-:
Meet the world chess champion since 2012, Magnus Carlsen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc_v9mTfhC8
| Mozart of Chess: Magnus Carlsen At age 21, chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen is the number one player in the world and says he loves to see his opponents squirm. |
Meet the most famous women's grand master. This one is almost an hour long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wzs33wvr9E
| NatGeo "My Brilliant Brain" featuring Susan Polgar A spectacular documentary by National Geographic. It took around 2 years in multiple countries to make this one. This documentary has been aired in well over 120 countries around the globe. A must watch documentary! |
https://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2012/03/25/10-big-brain-benefits-of-playing-chess/
Not for nothing is chess known as “the game of kings.” No doubt the rulers of empires and kingdoms saw in the game fitting practice for the strategizing and forecasting they themselves were required to do when dealing with other monarchs and challengers. As we learn more about the brain, some are beginning to push for chess to be reintroduced as a tool in the public’s education. With benefits like these, they have a strong case.
Additional chess links and resources:
https://www.chesskid.com/
http://www.kidchess.com/play-chess/
ChessKid.com | Online Chess For Kids - 100% Safe and Free
Have your kids play and learn chess online with the best tools (tactics, puzzles, videos, lessons and much more...) at ChessKid.com - the #1 chess site for kids. 100% Safe Environment.
www.chesskid.com
https://www.kidchess.com/gamestoplay.html
http://www.chesscorner.com/tutorial/learn.htm
http://www.usefulchess.com/chesslinks.html
Learn to Play Chess
Chess Corner. Home Learn Play Games Fun World Champions Ecards Book Store Links. Learn to Play Chess. Want to play chess? Don't know how?
www.chesscorner.com
CHESS LINKS
Chess Softwares on Amazon.com Sigma Chess Mac OS X Chess Software bundled with the HIARCS engine. The feature set includes: UCI engines, Databases, PGN/EPD, basic desktop publishing, HTML export, 3D board, ExaChess compatibility etc.
www.usefulchess.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess
Chess - Wikipedia
Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid. The game is played by millions of people worldwide. Chess is believed to have originated in India sometime before the 7th century. The game was derived from the Indian game chaturanga, which is also the likely ancestor of the Eastern strategy games xiangqi, janggi ...
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Got to hand it to ya mm!
And I'm supposing that old guy in the pics is you?!
That's me.
