by Raphael | Oct 25, 2017 | How to, News
Two kids, Gabby & Garrett Heller started Chess 4 Charity in 2011 to hold a chess tournament for charity, hoping to raise money for great causes. With their fifth event in October 2017 they not only reached this year’s goal of $7500 for the Childhood Brain Tumor...
by Raphael | May 1, 2017 | Benefits of Chess
According to Murray, Chess originated at the end of sixth century in India. The game was different then, elephants replacing the present day rooks and peasants replacing pawns. The “firzan” now known as the queen could only move diagonally one square at a...
by Raphael | May 1, 2017 | Benefits of Chess
by John Artise The game of chess makes one of the most important contributions to the field of education. Inherent in it are the basic principles of psychological learning theory: Memory, Pattern Recognition, Decision making, and Reinforcement. All of these variables...
by Raphael | May 1, 2017 | Benefits of Chess
Chess has long been recognized throughout the world as a builder of strong intellects, but only recently has the United States begun to recognize that chess improves academic performance through improving the cognitive abilities, rational thinking and reasoning of...
by Raphael | May 1, 2017 | Benefits of Chess
How a caring teacher and the game of chess changed lives in the ghetto by Jo Coudert A Whoosh of flame startled teacher Bill Hall as he walked into his classroom. Whirling around, he saw 15-Year-old Jose Tavarez holding a lighter to a spray can of deodorant....
by Raphael | May 1, 2017 | Benefits of Chess
My son is now 11. Diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD), he has had real social and behavioral difficulties since he was 18 months old, when we were asked to remove him from our church-based day-care. Subsequently, he was thrown out of several...
by Raphael | May 1, 2017 | Benefits of Chess
Chess lovers have long contended that chess should be a valuable classroom tool. Chess makes kids smarter and it can provide an intellectually stimulating, rewarding activity, but it can also teach discipline, concentration, planning and all the other good things...
by Raphael | May 1, 2017 | Benefits of Chess
Chess is the gymnasium of the mind and is variously described as a science, an art and a sport. It has the virtue of being completely free of the element of luck: the result of each game depends entirely upon the skill of the players. A youngster who plays chess soon...
by Raphael | Dec 1, 2016 | Products, Travel
With a suitable travel chess set we packed light and enjoyed some chess on our camping trip. It was Evan’s first camping trip to Deer Park in the Olympic range of Washington. A mile above sea level, it has breathtaking views in all directions including the...
by Raphael | Nov 29, 2016 | Art of Chess
Here’s a first look at the Raphael Design chess pieces that are radically un-Staunton yet irresistible to the child inside of us. While they may not appeal to the chess purist, I love the simplicity of a mere block of wood that has beauty and significance on the...