Chess boosts student memory, creativity and concentration. Why isn't it compulsory?

Tim Perkins

By Tim Perkins
Community contribution / October 12, 2019

In 1983 the first Australian Computers in Education conference was held in Melbourne.

Evidence has resulted in chess being made compulsory in primary schools in Armenia, Hungary, Spain and Russia.

Over the following four decades, computers have proliferated in classrooms all over the country with schools making major investments in ...

This story appeared in the October 2019 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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