CHESS FOR KIDS Services
CHESS FOR KIDS offers quality chess education at your school of choice at the elementary or secondary level. We also offer classes within home school groups or youth organizations.
Friday evening chess classes are offered including rated tournaments for intermediate or advanced players. For more information regarding Friday evening chess click "here."
CHESS FOR KIDS
1275 4th Street
Box 225
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
The Benefits of Teaching Chess
In a 1974-1976 Belgium study, a chess-playing experimental group of fifth graders experienced a statistically significant gain in cognitive development over a control group, using Piaget's tests for cognitive development. Perhaps more noteworthy, they also did significantly better in their regular school testing, as well as in standardized testing administered by an outside agency which did not know the identity of the two groups. Quoting Dr. Adriaan de Groot: ...``In addition, the Belgium study appears to demonstrate that the treatment of the elementary, clear-cut and playful subject matter can have a positive effect on motivation and school achievement generally...''