On Chess, Children, School, Education, Intelligence, Performance

Chess in curriculum helps school hone kids’ abilities
Published: Thursday, Apr 28, 2011, 9:26 IST
By Team DNA | Place: Bangalore | Agency: DNA

Yes! Chess, the addictive board game, forms a part of the curriculum at the Green Wood High School, Bangalore. Being the first in the city to take this step, the school authorities believe that chess practised from a young age as a sport or a favourite pastime cultivates good habits among students. It not only helps them gain expertise in the game, but also guides them for a better, brighter, and quality life.

“Chess has been a part of our school curriculum for seven years. Since chess is an indoor game and does not require much equipment, it is easy to incorporate it into the curriculum. It helps students immensely,” said Niru Agarwal, director of the school.

Learning chess is compulsory for students of nursery to Class VII, while students of Class VIII to X can learn it by choice. Highly-qualified chess tutors, who are a part of the teaching staff, teach chess at the school. It is taught like any other subject, with 3-4 classes a week for all grades.

“Chess improves a child’s logical reasoning, patience, concentration power and mathematical ability. It also induces competitive spirit as students try to outplay one another, and enhances their decision-making ability,” Agarwal said, when asked how the game contributes in improving children’s cognitive skills.

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DUBAI OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

13th DUBAI OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP - A SHORT REPORT!

The Dubai Chess & Culture Club organised the 13th DUBAI OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP in DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, from 9th to 19th April 2011.

A record 40 grandmasters competed in the strong Dubai Open; also seen in action were & nine women grandmasters, 22 international masters, three women international masters,16 FIDE masters and six woman FIDE masters.

In total, 168 players from 33 countries, namely India, UAE, Armenia, Iran, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Philippines, Georgia, Russia, Azerbaijan, Egypt, Germany, Jordan, England, Syria, Australia, Belgium, Belarus, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Sweden, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Qatar, South Africa, Sudan, Tajikistan, Turkey and Uzbekistan participated in this strong contest.

Indian GM Abhijeet Gupta (2580) won the championship with 7.5points out of 9 rounds while compatriot GM Parimarjan Negi (2618) secured the second place with 7points on better tie-breaks (TB1 20446 ; TB2 2556). Top seed of the championship GM Krishnan Sasikiran (2683) of India had a forgettable tournament, which is going to cost him dear in the May FIDE Rating List!

A GAME FROM THE EVENT!
Sitting behind the white pieces, Negi went for the sharpest variation against the Sicilian Najdorf. Wild complexities ensued very early in the middle game itself and Sasikiran had to be cautious right through. Negi sacrificed a piece early in the opening for two pawns but Sasikiran was alert and he gave the piece back in quick time.

In the final stages of the middle game, the contest was interestingly poised but Sasikiran missed the thread after taking two pieces for a rook. As a draw was much on cards Sasikiran blundered and walked in to a checkmate web.

Tournament: Dubai 2011; Round: 06
White: Negi, Parimarjan (2618)
Black: Sasikiran, Krishnan (2683)
Date: Saturday April 16 2011; Result: 1-0
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Nbd7 8. Qf3 Qc7 9. O-O-O b5 10. Bd3 Bb7 11. Rhe1 Be7 12. Qg3 O-O-O 13. Bxb5 axb5 14. Ndxb5 Qb6 15. e5 Nc5 16. exf6 gxf6 17. Bh4 Rhg8 18. Qh3 Bxg2 19. Qe3 Bc6 20. Nd4 Bb7 21. Nf5 Bf8 22. Ng3 Rg6 23. Nge4 d5 24. Bxf6 Rxf6 25. Nxf6 d4 26. Qe5 dxc3 27. Rxd8+ Qxd8 28. Qxc3 Qc7 29. Nxh7 Qxf4+ 30. Kb1 Be7 31. b4 Be4 32. Ng5 Bxg5 33. Qxc5+ Kd7 34. h4 Bf6 35. h5 Bd5 36. Qb5+ Kd8 37. Qa5+ Kc8 38. Qc5+ Kd7 39. h6 Bd4 40. Qb5+ Kc7 41. Rf1 Qxh6 42. Rxf7+ Kd6 43. Qb8+ 1-0

Final top 15 standings!

Name FED Rtg Pts.
1 GM Abhijeet Gupta IND 2580 7.5
2 GM Parimarjan Negi IND 2618 7.0
3 GM Csaba Balogh HUN 2601 7.0
4 GM Kazhgaleyev Murtas KAZ 2618 7.0
5 GM Jon Ludvig Hammer NOR 2606 7.0
6 GM Evgenij Miroshnichenko UKR 2670 6.5
7 GM Mikheil Mchedlishvili GEO 2629 6.5
8 GM Amin Bassem EGY 2596 6.5
9 GM Alexei Fedorov BLR 2596 6.5
10 GM Emanuel Berg SWE 2612 6.5
11 GM Vladimir Akopian ARM 2675 6.5
12 WIM Veronika Schneider HUN 2247 6.5
13 IM Niclas Huschenbeth GER 2465 6.5
14 GM Tigran Kotanjian ARM 2527 6.5
15 GM Gadir Guseinov AZE 2584 6.5
16 GM David Arutinian GEO 2575 6.5

WORLD JUNIORS AND JUNIOR GIRLS U-20 CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011!

WORLD JUNIORS & JUNIOR GIRLS U-20
CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS - 2011!
CHENNAI, TAMILNADU, INDIA
FROM 1ST TO 16TH OF AUGUST, 2011

THE WORLD JUNIORS & JUNIOR GIRLS U-20 CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011 WILL BE CONDUCTED UNDER THE AUSPICES OF WORLD CHESS GOVERNING BODY FIDE, ALL INDIA CHESS FEDERATION (AICF) & TAMILNADU CHESS ASSOCIATION (TNSCA), IN CHENNAI, TAMILNADU, INDIA!


The championships are scheduled from 1st to 16th of August, 2011, at Chennai, India. Hundreds of chess players, from all over the world, are expected to participate. India will be serious contenders for a lot of titles in the various categories of the championships. It is a wonderful coincidence that the championships are conducted in Chennai, as it is the home town of the World Chess Champion Vishy Anand & he has shifted his base from Spain to Chennai, India, a couple of months back!


THE WORLD JUNIORS & JUNIOR GIRLS U-20 CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS will be a big boost to the already fast growing Indian Chess Player Contigents, all over India! Thousands of fast growing chess players of various age groups will get morale boosting inspiration from these sorts of World Class Chess Tournaments, conducted in India! And, we can expect another couple of World Chess Champions, like Vishy Anand, from these players from India, who participate in these sorts of World Championships!


"ALL THE BEST" for ALL THE INDIAN CHESS PLAYERS in THE WORLD JUNIORS & JUNIOR GIRLS U-20 CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011, from our team, "CHESS GM PROJECT"!

Viswanathan Anand Blessed With A Baby Boy!

Aruna Anand, wife of World Chess Champion Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, delivered a healthy baby boy this morning. It is reported that the child and mother are doing fine.

Congratulations to the World Champion and his wife, from all the chess lovers & CHESS GM PROJECT!

Source: Indian Chess Federation

CHESS GM PROJECT - KERALA

CHESS GM PROJECT has continuously been making waves all over India, since 2010, in a VERY BIG WAY!

Players of all ages have become an integral part of IT and they are enjoying it to the deepest core of their heart. What qualitative changes CHESS GM PROJECT has introduced in their lives is something quite amazing!


The sea change, which came with CHESS GM PROJECT, is hugely welcomed all over the places! People always say that "Its a wonderful feeling to be a part of this great project - CHESS GM PROJECT!"

Thanks for all those who have become a part of this great initiative.....! And, welcome to all who are moving towards becoming a part of this great movement - CHESS GM PROJECT!

Chess - The Touchstone Of An Intelligent Mind!

The game which originated in India thousands of years ago is making a come back in its birthplace with a BANG! With a World Champion to fight its cause, it is taking giant steps towards re-conquering the ever innovative minds of Indians or rather the minds of its inventors! More & more people are getting involved in the game.....Thousands of kids are being sent to the Chess Training Centres, all over India! It is the Re-emergence of Chess in India, after a very long time!

The game which nourishes one's brain & mind has always been there in the Life of Indians all these millennia! The game was taught in the Oldest of the Universities of the World, Nalanda & Taxila, in the golden days of Bharat - as India was called in those days! It was a part of the curriculum in India, thousands of years ago, as people even in those days too, as is the case with the present day generation, knew the great things the Great Game instilled in one's life!

It was considered ‘A Heavy Battle With Not Even A Drop Of Blood Shed’! Its was considered the 'Touchstone Of An Intelligent Mind'! Kings, Emperors, Businessmen & Warriors played the game those days with zest...! Scholars & the Common Man played it with the same enthusiasm & involvement as the Mighty Kings & Emperors did! IT WAS INDIA IN THE GOOD OLDEN DAYS! CHATURANGA - THE ORIGINAL & UNADULTARATED VERSION OF CHESS! - WAS THERE IN THE MINDS OF ALL THE LIVING PERSONS WHO THOUGHT IN BHARAT, THE GOOD OLD INDIA!

Now, after thousands of years of its birth THE GAME is making huge waves again in the minds of Indians! When Viswanathan Anand (the unadulterated version of Vishy Anand as he is known in the chess world!) won the World Junior Crown in 1987-88, it was something the Indians enjoyed deeply in their souls! They started to follow chess again in those years...! It took a very long 12 years for Anand to get THE WORLD CHAMPION CROWN, in 2000, despite his rankings in the top 5 for a decade!

By the time Anand won the WORLD CROWN for the FOURTH TIME in 2010, beating Veselin Topalov in his home turf in Sofia, Bulgaria, India & Indians got completely involved in chess! Lakhs (lakh in Indian mathematics is equal to one tenth of a million!) of children stormed the ever attractive dimensions of the classic game chess! Chess tournaments sprang up in every nook & corner of the country; with chess tournaments the number of chess academies & training centres also started to grow at a very rapid pace, as people wanted to give the maximum to their children that they Live Their Life As Beautifully As It Can Be!


It was when 'CHESS GM PROJECT' happened! The project was started in 2010 to help the coming generations master the Game Of Chess in such an innovative way that the 'GMs' will be the natural by-products, and the number of Indian 'GMs' will be like the leaves on a tree in spring - uncountable! It is a well known fact that the Royal Game Chess helps a person develop his/her personality as IT nurtures logical thinking, analytical ability, pattern identification & understanding, calculating ability, reasoning, responsibility etc, which are the basic building blocks of any successful human being! And, 'CHESS GM PROJECT' is working hard to achieve the sublime aim of creating a nation of great persons & personalities with the help of the Royal Indian Game Chess!