The game of chess has been attracting the attention of many people in the recent years. It’s not just simple, interesting and attractive kind of contest, but is much easily accessible and strongly effective means for the intellectual development. Wide experimental research on this game has showed a positive effect of activities such as logical and creative thoughts, concentration, memory and reproductive imagination. The habit of playing chess helps children learn things easier. Consequently, in general, the children who play chess regularly do well at school than other classmates.
So, chess playing is really enough to become a little wiser? Certainly yes, Chess is a good method for the formation of one’s intelligence. To prove it, results of a certain number of recent psychological examinations indicate that this method can be made much more effective if some special chess-related games are used. A study, A.Bartashnikov, 1988, implied two classes for experiment where 8 year old pupils and with the roughly same levels of erudition were taught in chess. In the two classes the lessons of chess continued for half a year. But in the first class they taught the young people according to traditional methodology (which is like the same in any chess primer) while in the second class the special chess-related intellectual games were employed.
These plays were aimed at improving children’s intellectual levels rather than their skills in playing chess. A third class was also implied in this study, being used as a control group. At the beginning of experiment the total intellectual level of the children in this class was similar to that observed in the two other classes. During this six months period, students in the class of control were not guided in chess at all. At the end of the period the researchers noted the intellectual achievements of the pupils in the three classes. The pupils of the first experimental class seemed to be well in front of the children of control class kids in both of the two results, intellectual levels and study progress in general, however their progress was lower than that was recorded in the second class where the professors had applied the methodology based intellectual games. Outstandingly, when suddenly played chess, the second group defeated the first one in a match, fact showing that their competence of play was also the best.
Results of the experiment proves, to employ a methodology based on chess-related games is not limited to the development of the human intellectual abilities in general; one can also purely develop the skills of play in this manner. So, such games can be useful for the chess players with particular sporting ambition. It’s a game of a kind in which you will find of the series of puzzles of chess.