Thinking with chess, teaching children ages 5-14, Alexey W. Root
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Thinking with chess, teaching children ages 5-14, Alexey W. Root
Language
eng
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illustrations
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no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Thinking with chess
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Alexey W. Root
Sub title
teaching children ages 5-14
Summary
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
Target audience
primary
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