I started playing on this website since last November and it is also the first time I actually played for more then fun. My grades were around 85 all through high school and i couldn't seem to get them higher. Since i had been playing chess on this site, I notice my grades slightly improved. By the next quarter, I had hit the 91 mark, which to me was great because I got on the honor role for the first time since middle school. I recently got my next quarter grades and had the same results. My math happens to be at an all time high and minor improvements in other classes. I'm not sure if there is a correlation between chess and school, but I would like to believe so.

Yes there would be some level in which chess has played a role. I believe it's because we use both sides of our brain when playing chess and involves many elements that would apply in ur schooling. Congratulations by the way I'm happy your achieving better results in school.

research shows that students usually do better in school if they are also studying chess and this could be because the rules of the game stress cause and effect relationships and also dominance of tasks in the task environment, which could help with preparations for tests in the classsroom, but...bobby fischer learned chess and he dropped out of school.

so it depends on the individual.

First I want to say congratulations =]

I think chess has got something to do with it. Because I feel the same way. Normally in my math lessons I always do questions in a paper but now I tend to just solve them in my head.

Excellent!  I think chess probably does help --- one of the things that I believe to be true is that many subjects in school are more about training your brain to deal with problems than the actual topic itself.  For example, geometry is more about logic than shapes - for those in college, organic chemistry is more about problem solving when bulk memorization is not enough....  I think chess has aspects of both, and trains your thought patterns in ways that can then be broadly applied.