[IAEP] Chess activities

[Sean DALY]

I agree, this would make a great Activity in particular using
collaboration. There are chess clubs everywhere including many schools
(I had the privilege of being on the winning team of a citywide school
championship in NYC when I was 12). There is abundant literature
linking chess activity with school performance [1,2].

Perhaps we could interest a chess federation in sponsoring
development? I believe the Gcompris engine is gnuchess.

Sean

[1] http://www.chess.ca/misc2008/benefitsofchess.pdf
[2] http://www.il-chess.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=234&Itemid=127



On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> I came across an article about the educational benefits of learning chess:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13140772
>
> So I thought it'd be a great idea to include a chess activity on our
> XOs. To my surprise, all I could find on aslo were ported GCompris
> programmes.
>
> Are there any _native_ Sugar activities that allow children to learn
> chess and play with their friends via Sugar collaboration?
>
>
>
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