New England Chess School

In the year 2011, Armenia became the world’s first nation to mandate chess lessons for all their students in school. It has been made mandatory for all children above the age of six in Armenia to learn the game on a regular basis through financial investments of millions of dollars by the government for training instructors and providing chess boards. It has been witnessed that children in Armenia possess better problem-solving capabilities and academic performance due to chess lessons...

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Chess is not merely about making moves but it’s also about knowing when to ponder and when to go with instinct. If you’ve found yourself pondering over a chessboard while the clock ticks, deliberating over whether you should analyze a position for 20 minutes or simply make a move, then you know this choice is essential. Scientifically speaking, it has been proven that the decision to contemplate or not is equally crucial as the move itself...

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Theory in chess is the collective knowledge that we have gathered over the centuries. It is the body of knowledge that helps us to develop our pieces in the opening stage of the game, build our plans in the middlegame, and follow precise rules in the endgame. It is clean and logical and is usually laid out in books or databases that make it seem obvious.

The reality of practice is rather different. It is the time when the clock is running against us, when we are tired and when our opponents are making every attempt to make things complicated. The difference between theory and practice is that theory is what we know and practice is what we can actually do...

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There will be no classes next week. Enjoy April Recess!