Enhance your child’s IQ level with chess

Enhance your child’s IQ level with chess

Pickering club meets every Friday
Oct 27, 2009 – 12:41 PM

PICKERING — A chess club in Pickering is offering a chance for beginner, intermediate and advanced players to share their passion for the game.

Pickering Library has provided space at the Petticoat Creek Library, where the club meets every Friday at 7 p.m. throughout the year.

No chess game ever repeats itself, which means you create more and more new ideas each game. In every game you are the general of an army and you alone decide the destiny of your soldiers. You can sacrifice them, trade them, pin them, fork them, lose them, defend them, or order them to break through any barriers and surround the enemy king.

Chess is fairly easy to learn. Most six or seven year olds can follow the basic rules. Some kids as young as four or five can also play. It is a fun way to teach children how to think and solve an array of difficult problems. It is one of the most effective educational tools available to strengthen a child’s mind.

More and more schools around the world are recognizing the value of chess, with instructions now becoming part of standard curriculum. There are more than 30 countries which have chess as a part of the school curriculum. In Canada, a growing number of elementary schools have incorporated chess into the regular school curriculum, through Challenging Mathematics. This math program is approved by the Ministry of Education.

Source: http://newsdurhamregion.com