Chess Palace

(Reuters) - Ten-year-old Tamas Katona hopes solitary generation to be a chess champion, but in the meantime his love of the game is serving him to master the skills to facilitate must help him in train and soon after life.


The boy lives in Hungary wherever the world's unsurpassed female chess player, Judit Polgar, has crooked a train into "chess wonderland" catering accurately representing students such as Katona.

Polgar and her two sisters - Zsuzsa (Susan) and Zsofia (Sofia) - won the 1988 Chess Olympiad representing Hungary's female team, finale Soviet dominance. Judit Polgar united men's tournaments and became solitary of the top players in the globe, demolishing the myth to facilitate chess is the mental sport of smart men.

These days Polgar, who has two children, spends much of her stage implementing a special schooling encode called the "Chess Palace" to facilitate puts chess thinking next to the focal point of learning.

"We don't would like to raise chess players now, but we'd like to consume chess to teach children ... To think logically and be able to consume to facilitate skill in their everyday lives," Polgar held.

During the Chess Palace - as in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking-Glass" - the pieces show your face to life. They own names like Jumpy Horse, Boom Rook, Tiny Pawn and are like close links who direct the children through intractable train subjects.

The pieces range in size from 1 cm (under semi an inch) tall to a measuring device (three feet) in height. Chairs, walls and carpets furthermore sport chess motifs.

The pieces, whose combinations and moves correspond to arithmetical, linguistic or musical patterns, help children develop their skills in chess and in their train studies while making the learning process a more joyous working out.

"I love this (chess) very much as it's a game and next to the same stage it teaches me. It's a game of logic to facilitate develops the brain in a horrendous way," Katona held.

A a small number of years previously, the Dezso Lemhenyi train - which apart from its consume of chess as a schooling tool serves as a customary, full-time primary train - was struggling representing survival.

Now teachers show your face from other parts of Hungary and from the United States and Britain to distinguish the Chess Palace.

FAST LEARNING

Chess is trained in many countries, but not in this way.

The foremost difference is to facilitate in the Hungarian version all facts to facilitate children are said to gain knowledge of in train is integrated into a usage wherever the chess pieces acquit yourself as figures, calligraphy or even musical comments, depending on the topic trained.

At a taste presentation representing around 15 teachers, seven-year-olds stimulated so fast from solitary working out to a further it was intractable to chase come again? Topic they were practicing.

"This sword expenses 17 chess thalers (dollars). What look after you think we must salary representing it, Csongor?" the teacher asks a boy.

"Two rooks and a knight," the boy replies promptly, followed by pauses representing a support, computing the survey assigned to apiece chess case in the game. "And a bishop and a pawn," he quickly added.

The exercises furthermore help develop recall. At the presentation the children plunk 16 pieces on the board aimlessly, and followed by posed questions to two boys who crooked away from the board.

"How many pieces are on the white diagonal line (across the chess board)?" a girl asked. "Three," came the correct response.

Polgar has produced a Chessplayground relevance on iPad in which children arrive on a "Chess Planet" via a spaceship.

Chess helps children gain knowledge of by in concert and building on their interests in the visual culture of the digital age, Polgar held in the same way as a lesson.

"It is a complicated sport and in this respect to facilitate is very respectable. It has six discrete pieces to facilitate move in six discrete ways, so they can reaper (them) into various games," she held.

Hungary, wherever the game is played universally, even on hovering chessboards in Budapest's famous hot-spring baths, has integrated chess into the state curriculum from September.

"It may well be a curious contrast to facilitate I not at all went to train and promptly we launch a train encode," held Polgar, who was home-educated by her father who had wanted to show to facilitate with listening carefully education kids can comprehend to the top in something, even chess.

"This is discrete as I am specialist... The goal now is learning through chess sooner than learning how to perform chess."