Teaching and playing the game of chess has often been advocated as a form of mental training. In education, teachers are those who teach students or pupils, often a course of study or a practical skill. ... Jump to: navigation, search A play is a common form of literature, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters, and usually intended for performance rather than reading. ... A chess table is a table with a chessboard painted or engraved on it. ...

Benjamin Franklin, in his article The Morals of Chess (1750), advocated such a view: Jump to: navigation, search Benjamin Franklin (17. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London, England April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex...

"The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn: 1st, Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action ... 2nd, Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations; ... 3rd, Caution, not to make our moves too hastily...." Jump to: navigation, search Life is a multi-faceted concept. ...

The U.S. Chess Center in Washington, D.C., teaches chess to children, especially those in the inner city, "as a means of improving their academic and social skills." Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... The term inner-city is often applied to the poorer parts at the centre of a major city. ... Plato is credited with the inception of academia: the body of knowledge, its development and transmission across generations. ... Social skills are skills a social animal uses to interact and communicate with others to assist status in the social structure and other motivations. ...

Alfred Binet demonstrated in the late 19th century that good chess players have superior memory and imagination. Alfred Binet Alfred Binet (July 11, 1857 – October 18, 1911), French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test, the basis of todays IQ test. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Jump to: navigation, search Memory is a function of the brain: the ability to retain information. ... Imagination is, in general, the power or process of producing mental images and ideas. ...

There are a number of experiments that suggest that learning and playing chess does, indeed, aid the mind in certain ways. The U.S. Chess Federation (USCF) chess research bibliography contains a collection of many such experimental results. Jump to: navigation, search From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum attempt). ... The mind is the term most commonly used to describe the higher functions of the human brain, particularly those of which humans are subjectivel // holaMedia:Example. ... Jump to: navigation, search Research is an active, diligent, and systematic process of inquiry in order to discover, interpret or revise facts, events, behaviours, or theories, or to make practical applications with the help of such facts, laws, or theories. ... Bibliography is the study of books. ...

Sources

• [1] Benjamin Franklin: The Morals of Chess
• [2] U.S. Chess Center
• [3] USCF Chess Research Bibliography