Activity Quote by Susan Polgar

Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and…

— Garry Kasparov

Next to the intellectual stimulation of chess, the educational value is of great importance. Chess teaches logic, imagination, self-discipline, and determination.

— Garry Kasparov

In an age when schools are facing significant budgetary restraints, there is a greater need than ever to make chess available to as many…

— Garry Kasparov

Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

— Susan Polgar

You playing chess well is just a reflection of your inner thought process and your ability to maintain discipline throughout. If we can teach…

— Maurice Ashley

It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too…

— Viswanathan Anand

There are two ways to have educational chess in schools, either through after school programs or using chess as a tool in classrooms to…

— Judit Polgar

I am thinking about chess in schools in particular. In the USA more than 3200 children competed in an event

— Anatoly Karpov

Education in Chess has to be an education in independent thinking and judging. Chess must not be memorized...

— Emanuel Lasker

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

— Che Guevara

Our efforts in chess attain only a hundredth of one percent of their rightful result... Our education, in all domains of endeavour, is frightfully…

— Emanuel Lasker

“They agree that chess training only improves chess skills but disagree that classroom training (almost) only improves classroom skills.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb