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Chess and Cognitive Psychology

Ok...lets get more creative and do some research into if and how chess really helps brain development.

Since i am personally doing some research in this direction, i would be dropping some findings here and i would appreciate useful contributions from all.

Talking about the correlation between chess playing and brain development. Here is an extract from one of the best webpages i found on the internet:

Why does chess have this impact? Briefly, there appear to be at least seven significant factors: 1) Chess accommodates all modality strengths. 2) Chess provides a far greater quantity of problems for practice. 3) Chess offers immediate punishments and rewards for problem solving. 4) Chess creates a pattern or thinking system that, when used faithfully, breeds success. The chess playing students had become accustomed to looking for more and different alternatives, which resulted in higher scores in fluency and originality. 5) Competition. Competition fosters interest, promotes mental alertness, challenges all students, and elicits the highest levels of achievement (Stephan, 1988). 6) A learning environment organized around games has a positive affect on students' attitudes toward learning. This affective dimension acts as a facilitator of cognitive achievement.
Here is the url: http://www.quadcitychess.com/benefits_of_chess.html


i like the way their inferences are backed yup with references and real experiments.
its really worth studying.
Why?
because if chess has so much great impact...then we can take it even more serious especially for child development.

More coming soon

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because if chess has so much great impact...then we can take it even more serious especially for child development.

More coming soon [/quote]

Fowe!

great insight...i have not come across that idea before. i guess i'll love to hire a proffessional to teach my pikin when i born its a leadership requirement

they'll all learn how to be expert strategists

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Here is a qualitative Knol on intelligence that is a good contribution to this topic:

http://knol.google.com/k/kevin-spauldin ... 4fj02nv/21

Enjoyy

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And here is good news coming from Nigeria!
PEDACHESS Educational Services has started something in this direction and its very koooolllllll ... here is the story:

http://nigerianchessplayers.blogspot.co ... st_19.html

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Pls is chess agmes developed into handheld gadget for easy accessibilty?

Thank you for this discovery.

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Update on PedaChess

Nine-year-old wins All Primary School Chess championship in Lagos. June 9 2009.



This is real good news, although Oyinbo win am this year, we go try better next year


http://www.234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Ne ... _Chess.csp

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