Reasons Why You and your Child Should Play Chess

For a long time, chess didn’t have the best image. It was considered to be a game played by old men with big thick glasses, or mostly geeks.
Today, however, this picture has changed. More and more young people with various hobbies like to play chess. Many schools offer chess classes and there are plenty of chess tournaments for people of all ages.
Chess is awesome! It promotes skills that can be applied to a huge variety of real-life situations. Moreover, the rules are easy to teach to children and chess can be played nearly everywhere. Not only can chess be great fun but it can also be extremely beneficial to children. When they are young and see adults playing chess, they are curious to learn more about the game of kings and queens..

Up Brain Power
We can think of our brain as a muscle. If we don’t use our biceps that often, it won’t be too strong. Consequently, if you don’t regularly use your brain to solve challenging tasks, you won’t be mentally fit. Top chess grandmasters recognize the need to keep their brain in peak condition.
Chess helps your children to perform well in the classroom at school. If your kids play chess, they will be used to sitting for a longer period of time to think and solve problem, skills that can prove very beneficial at school. chess improves the ability to memorize things,children have to remember how the pieces move, which strategies are good, which opening moves make sense, which don’t, and so on.
- Chess Improves Social Skills
The chess rules dictate that chess players ought to shake hands before the game, treat their opponent respectfully by not overtly distracting them, and the losing player shouldn’t tip the board upside down and storm off in disgust (however strong the urge). It helps children to respect others, and to be disciplined in terms of being reasonably silent.
- Strategical Thinking
During a chess game, you have to figure out many different plans, give up on some of your ideas and look for new ones, being flexible.
In chess, children learn that if they plan well, they get rewarded and, if they don’t play well they get punished by losing the game. This applies to real life as well. Moreover, chess increases your child’s creativity. In chess, you need to come up with original and creative ideas in order to surprise your opponent with a plan they don’t expect. As kids always want to win the games they play, they’ll think of creative ways to outplay their opponents.
- Chess is a Sport
It is a good compensation for sports where children exhaust their body much more. There is no doubt that physical exertion in chess is there (though not easily seen), but at the same time, chess players need to sit calmly at their chair and use their brain
- Chess Helps you Concentrate
Many children have very short attention spans. They watch plenty of short videos on YouTube or use apps on their parents mobile devices or tablets. This, however, leads to the problem that they soon get bored and switch their activities at rapid pace. When you see chess masters playing, a chess game can take more than six hours! It requires enormous skills to stay focused for such a long period of time.

Lee’s foundation intends to set up chess clubs in 500 government schools as a pilot program and serve as a forerunner to chess and hygiene in local communities.

As part of Lee’s foundation social development program, we intend to improve the rate at which children’s performance is given a focus. Their time management, strategy, planning and judgement is affected by the sportsmanship in chess. for more information :

www.Leesfoundation.org