Chess

Chess lovers have long contended that chess should be a valuable classroom tool. It can provide an in­tellectually stimulating, rewarding activity, but it can also teach discipline,, planning and all the other good things that go into successful chess. In 1977, however, the National Institute of Education (NIE) argued against this posi­tion, saying in effect that good students and good chess players tend to be the same group simply because they are more in­telligent and more intellectual than their classmates. NIE contended that transfer of skills is minimal, arguing that time spent on one skill detracts from the learning of another. however, we have scientific support for what we have known all along ‑ chess makes kids smarter!

Show us the research.

The NIE was either wrong or i am an exception to their assumption.