Features: · Educational Chess

  • It is tempting to start drawing on the board canvass immediately – and indeed many users do.

    A universal game teaching tool – 11 Jun 2022

    If you teach chess or other strategy games, you should know LogiqBoard. It enables you to create diagrams and teach online in new ways.

  • At Lines of Action a piece moves in any direction by exactly as many squares as there are pieces on this file, rank or diagonal. You can capture enemy pieces. You can jump over your own but never over enemy pieces. The first player to connect all pieces on adjacent squares wins.

    Other games on 64 squares – 23 Nov 2021

    If you teach chess for educational motives, you should know about simpler games on the chess board and how to introduce them to your students.

  • Here I assign the right to move to a student.

    Incredible that this is for free – 08 Sep 2021

    The Classroom video teaching tool from Chessable has made group teaching simpler and more efficient for Johan Hellsten.

  • There is now a generation of kids that is not used to set up the pieces, distinguish illegal moves, push the clock, or solve exercises in the book.

    This is the time for change – 20 Aug 2021

    While many school chess programmes have been on hold during the pandemic, Helge Frowein was busier than ever. Here is his appeal to mobilize fellow chess teachers and get better solutions for online and blended instruction.

  • To get beginners going the questions can hardly be too simple.

    Because kids love quizzes – 22 Jun 2021

    Kahoot! enables teachers to create quizzes in a fun format for their whiteboard, digital or online classes. It is also a great tool for chess teachers, writes Philippe Kalman.

  • Sarah Fricke’s artwork points out how girls SHOULD be shown in chess teaching materials

    Girls need a different approach – 08 Mar 2021

    Chess teaching materials are often stereotyping and neglecting girls. Silke Schwartau has some suggestions to make it gender-sensitive.