The mission of Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club (age 7-18) is to have a positive impact on children’s lives through the game of chess, imparting life skills, character qualities, the importance of building confidence and self-esteem. Chess gives children the ability and also help them develop maturity and learn life lessons through their efforts. The Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club emphasis on ‘life skills’ is at the core of what we teach.
Why Chess, According University of Memphis research, playing chess significantly improves children’s visual memory, attention span, and spatial-reasoning ability. Onichess.net, the writers note that the skills we learn from chess benefit us in other areas of life: “If we all teach children to play chess when they’re four or five, they will be primed for school. Chess teaches children fundamentals, like problem solving, focus, patience, and follow through.”
Back in 1973, Dr. Albert Frank conducted an oft-cited landmark study called “Chess and Aptitudes” in which children received chess instruction for two hours a week. He found a significant correlation between the ability to play chess well, and spatial, numerical, and administrative-directional abilities. The game also appears to improve verbal skills by exercising functions of the brain related to language.
Other scientific studies have found that the brains of expert chess players differ from non-chess players. Looking at MRIs, researchers saw that grandmaster chess players have more activity in their frontal and parietal cortices, the parts of the brain that focus on problem-solving and recognition. Advanced players also use both sides of the brain when they are playing this is noteworthy because using both sides of the brain has been found to help prevent dementia from developing later in life.
Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club wants to give every kid a chance to learn this very important game that has change the life of so many children. Students in our camps are taught at their level of understanding and are grouped with other kids of similar ability in order to provide an effective learning opportunity for children of all experience levels. Memphis Entrepreneurship Academy Chess Club are accepting children ages 7 – 18 years old.
[caldera_form id=”CF5beb9f2e17c74″]
