Why Should Parents Teach Chess to Their Kids
Everyone should play chess. It`s a great game that makes you use your brain and is also a video game nowadays, which can be incredibly helpful to parents who are battling their children over using their gadgets too much.
Studies have been published about children having difficulties concentrating if spending too much time watching TV or playing video games. The colors, sounds, effects, jump scares etc. present in modern television program and video games make our children needy for multiple stimulants to preserve their attention and often incapable of enjoying a book, for example, as it requires their imagination to bring the story alive, not aided by graphics, noise, special effects and similar stuff.
We can not stop our boys and girls from playing video games, but we could offer such games that are in fact making their imagination and concentration better.
Is there such a miraculous video game, one might ask?
Yes, there is, and it is called - chess!
Parents could teach the basics to their children hopping they would get interested. How the pieces move isn`t hard to comprehend. Once the game is introduced to your child, you should play with them, OTB or using some gadgets and start enjoying their excitement over victories and good moves they find.
This opens a whole new world to a child. One of competition, camaraderie, challenge, self improvement and adventure.
Science has in fact proven that chess players have more cognitive skill than non-chess players.
- Better problem solving skills
- Concentration improvement
- Patience
- Self discipline
- Engagement of both sides of our brain
- Memory improvement
- Confidence building in students
and so much more beneficial phenomenon for your children.
Knowing all this, any parent with their kids` best interest in heart, should introduce them to the 64 squares magic at once.
The author is a 2058 FIDE rated player with two decades of chess teaching experience.
