Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14

by Alexey W. Root

Thinking with Teaching Children Ages 5-14 is a handbook for teachers, librarians, after-school instructors, chess coaches, counselors, and parents that requires no prior knowledge of the game. Both novices and veteran chess players can use its innovative lesson plans for teaching groups of children.
Thinking with Chess, Dr. Alexey Root connects chess with skills important to academic success, such as classifying, pattern recognition, decoding, creating, and predicting. The book also introduces challenges for practicing divergent thinking and puzzles for convergent thinking.
Thinking with Chess teaches not only the fundamentals of chess – the chessmen and how they move, how to keep score, and where to play – but also tools useful in winning games, such as double check and smothered checkmate.

Genres: Chess

84 pages, Hardcover

First published October 16, 2012

About the author

Dr. Alexey W. Root was the 1989 U.S. Women's Chess Champion. Her Ph.D. in education is from UCLA. Alexey is a lecturer at The University of Texas at Dallas, teaching online courses about chess in education. She is also the Chessable Research Awards Coordinator.

Reviews

[Barbara Lovejoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was looking for a book that would help me improve my chess game. This book didn't fit that need, but it is definitely a book that our Esperanza chess teacher will want. It is not only filled with great ideas on how to teach chess to children (and adults!), but it is notes some great resources.