how to play chess,
at school and at home
Chess is an ancient and beautiful game, it rouses the creativity and imagination of children and it attracts their attention on logical processes.
In this Website you can find many videos referred to two international conferences ( 2009 "Chess: a game to grow up with", 2012 "Chess Mathematics: learning by playing") which dealt with the topic "Chess in school" from various points of view: the teaching methodologies, the researches, the psychology and the organizations which pledge themselves all over the world in the attempt to bring chess at school.
In those pages there are a lot of proof on advantages which derive from the use of chess as a propaedeutic learning's instrument, you can also find prof. Martini's speech about the last Italian research called SAM, which used INVALSI (the National Institute for the Evaluation of the Education System) tests, that showed how to achieve better results in math using chess. Furthermore we provide the access to "Victor's chess house" to all children, but also to those schools which want to learn how to practise the game of chess by WEB.
Probably a lot of schools cannot start chess projects because of the lack of funds, shortage of skilled instructors, or since teachers are not still sufficiently well-informed about this didactic instrument.
Victor the cat, who is a good instructor, can teach the game in an interactive way, offering to children the possibility to play together, despite the distance.
"Victor's chess house" has been subject of research in 2010 (you can see the speech of prof. Trinchero here).
We also refer to families in order that they may propose this educative and stimulating game to their children, who use to spend a lot of time in front of the TV, Play-Station or PC.
Why don't offer them a possibility to learn a game useful also to improve their results at school?
Here you can see a demo of the program, used on the research, "The use of digital technology for chess learning in schools." (2010) that was a research project by Professor Roberto Trinchero (University of Turin) and Professor Domenico Parisi (National Research Council, Rome). The study was carried out on 76 third-year classes in 50 Italian primary schools, and demonstrated that students can effectively learn the rules of chess online, by means of interactive, web-based software, without the need to employ instructors or teachers in possess of any particular expertise in the game of chess.
From school or from home
The programme, which is in a protected area, helps pupils to learn the basic rules of chess, involving them in a fully interactive course in various stages, made up of lessons, games and final trials in 12 different levels. Students can try out the programme, directly from their own and/or the school's PC. A series of online games enable students to learn chess in stages, either playing against the computer or in real-time with online students from other schools around the world, i.e. who are also connected via the Internet at the same time. By the end of the course students will be ready to play a real chess game, using all the pieces.
To download the information document for schools here.
To download the information document for families here.
For the registration of schools or individual users click here.
