[IAEP] Invitaton to US Chess Federation Scholastic Chess

[Greg Dekoenigsberg]

Brilliant, Ed!

--g

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008, Edward Cherlin wrote:

> I just now sent this message on the US Chess Federation Web site,
> http://www.uschess.org/. Scholastic Chess includes all of the USCF
> activities in schools: teaching, clubs, tournaments, publications...
>
> One Laptop Per Child (http://laptop.org/) and Sugar Labs
> (http://sugarlabs.og/) have put chess software, including a tutorial,
> on the OLPC XO, which is now in the hands of half a million children
> around the world. We would like to discuss with you an expansion of
> Scholastic Chess to dozens of countries and in time to many millions
> of children.
>
> In particular, we have the opportunity to create free electronic
> teaching materials for distribution on the laptops. International
> Master Josh Waitzkin has offered his book, The Art of Learning, if we
> can work out the licensing with the publisher.
>
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