Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14

About this book

Whats the best way to teach chess to children? Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14 is a handbook for teachers librarians after-school instructors chess coaches counselors and parents that requires no prior knowledge of the game. Both novices and veteran chess players can use its innovative lesson plans for teaching groups of children. In Thinking with Chess Dr. Alexey Root connects chess with skills important to academic success such as classifying pattern recognition decoding creating and predicting. The book also introduces challenges for practicing divergent thinking and puzzles for convergent thinking. Thinking with Chess teaches not only the fundamentals of chess the chessmen and how they move how to keep score and where to play but also tools useful in winning games such as double check and smothered checkmate.