After winning the world championship in 1972, Bobby Fischer became an American folk hero, like Daniel Boone or John Wayne. Bobby is tall and broad-shouldered; his face is clean-cut, masculine, attractive. but on second glance this impression dislo...
Unlike chess in parks, in coffee shops or in many clubs and adults tournaments across the United States the National Elementary Chess Championship ( consisting grades 4-6 ) is a well-organized and attractively staged event. Enthusiast in cities li...
In the Hall of Columns, Anatoly Karpov and Gary Kasparov played on a stage flanked by two large display boards. Karpov wore a gray business suit; the challenger dressed more casually in a sports jacket and sweater. Sometimes Kasparov strolled the ...
Bobby Fischer was born in 1943. From the time he was a six year old living in Brooklyn until he won the world championship at twenty-nine, he was totally preoccupied with chess. At the age of fourteen, he won the United States championship, an unp...
In the spring of 1984, at the National Elementary Chess Championship in Syracuse, New york, a distraught father began to whisper moves to his son. Across the gymnasium floor, scores of other parents crowded close to the chessboards and nervously d...
We often think of gaming as a diversion from reality, says David Williamson Shaffer, an education science professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of How Vieo Games Help Children Learn, but they're actually more real than so...
A pioneer of educational video games is Civilization, says Bill Mackenty, head of instructional design at Hunter College High School in New York City and a former Massachusetts elementary school teacher. In Civilization-called "Civ" by d...
David Mcdivitt, who teaches world chess history and sociology at Oak Hill High School in Converse, Indiana, says games teach his students important lessons about cause and effect. In the game Making History, for example, students act as leaders of...
One of the greatbenefits of being a grandmaster is that it allows me to really appreciate how hard it is to be good at anything. The field may vary: sports, entertainment, law, medicine, farming, pottery. Whatever the endeavor, the top performers ...
