Chess in School Project

Chess Gymnasium by Jaan Ehlvest
27.12.2011 – Chess in Schools has become the hottest topic in the game. A new book by the Estonian GM Jaan Ehlvest (who now lives in the US) introduces us to the “Russian way” of teaching chess to young children. It is a method born of decades of research. “Chess Gymnasium” introduces each concept slowly, but with depth. The author, once ranked number five in the world, describes the project.

Chess Gymnasium

By Jaan Ehlvest

A few years back I wrote an autobiographical book “The story of a chessplayer“. It was more like for grown-ups. Now I have just published a book for children: “Chess Gymnasium” was presented just before Christmas in Tallinn, Estonia.

Chess in schools has become a hot topic lately and it is used even in chess politics, if you read and follow it more closely. The FIDE President made it his first priority and is helping local chess federations to get more attention from local authorities, mainly from their ministries of education.

Kirsan Ilyumzhinov visited the Baltic states recently. In the above picture he is signing my book...

...to present it to the representative of Estonian Ministry of Education.

The official presentation of the book took place few days later in Solaris Center in Tallinn at the bookstore Apollo. In this picture the publisher Andres Adamson from Argo is making the introductory speech and the author is standing in the middle. In Estonia three million books are sold annually. My publisher thinks that the colorful book for children is far better then the computer screen and I fully agree with him.

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