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Chess has always had an image problem, being seen as a game for brainiacs and people with already high IQs. So there has been a bit of a chicken-and-egg situation: do smart people gravitate towards chess, or does playing chess make them smart? At least one study has shown that moving those knights and rooks around can in fact raise a person’s intelligence quotient. So moving the pieces, is not an ordinary activity, it is the result of raising intelligence. And if you want your kid to shine with their high IQ score, the chess world waits for your child.

In our quick developing world, every day we face numerous problems and obstacles in every step of our life. Some of the problems are being solved some of them not because of the lack of problem-solving skills. As a parent one necessary thing that you must do is prepare your kid for those problems, teach them how to solve them and move forward. And, earlier you start, earlier you will have independent, self-confident child. Chess is the brilliant example of developing those skills. Let your child be confident, problem-solver through playing chess.

If you remember yourself when you were a teenager, maybe you will regret some things that you have done without thinking about the consequences. You know what is the characteristic feature of all chess players, they plan and predict all the time, no matter where they are. While playing chess, planning is also important, which becomes the part of the personality and makes the person always follow those rules. So if you want to have a teenager with planning skills, act now. The most important thing is the skills that are being taught through this game go far from the board, and prepare the person for life difficulties, and problems, teach them how to solve those obstacles in a creative way. In the result teaching your children how to play chess, can be one of the greatest things that you will do for them.

Let’s chess together, maybe your kid will conquer the chess world and will become the next Fischer, you never know till you try.

Chess masters might come off like scattered nutty professors, but the truth is their antics during games are usually the result of intense concentration that the game demands and improves in its players. Looking away or thinking about something else for even a moment can result in the loss of a match, as an opponent is not required to tell you how he moved if you didn’t pay attention. Numerous studies of students in the U.S., Russia, China, and elsewhere have proven time and again that young people’s ability to focus is sharpened with chess.

Since the right hemisphere of the brain is responsible for creativity, it should come as no surprise that activating the right side of your brain helps develop your creative side. Specifically, chess greatly increases originality. One four- year study had students from grades 7 to 9 play chess, use computers, or do other activities once a week for 32 weeks to see which activity fostered the most growth in creative thinking. The chess group scored higher in all measures of creativity, with originality being their biggest area of gain.

In a German study, researchers showed chess experts and novices simple geometric shapes and chess positions and measured the subjects’ reactions in identifying them. They expected to find the experts’ left brains being much more active, but they did not expect the right hemisphere of the brain to do so as well. Their reaction times to the simple shapes were the same, but the experts were using both sides of their brains to more quickly respond to the chess position questions. Consequently, when experts play chess they use their both sides of the brain. So, dear parent, when your kid learns the rules and technique also during playing chess, exercises and develops both sides of the brain.