Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis and Monsanto Fund Set to...
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View ArticleBishops and Basketball: The Benefits of Chess on Social-Emotional Outcomes
by Emily Sholtis & Anna Nicotera, Basis Policy Research
View ArticleChess Club Convenes a National Conference Session with Focus on Chess Research
Next week the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis will convene a session titled, Are Your Students Playing Chess? Research Says They Should, at the 2016 National Charter Schools Conference...
View ArticleNational Conference Session Promotes Scholastic Chess
School leaders from around the country attended the session that the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis convened, Are Your Students Playing Chess? Research Says They Should, at the 2016...
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Using Chess to Support Students with Special Needs
By: Anna Nicotera & Emily Sholtis, Basis Policy Research
View ArticleNew Chess Research Questions the Impact of Chess Interventions on Student...
This blog has featured several articles exploring the impacts of chess on school-aged children. The effects have ranged from improved scores of math assessments, increased cognitive abilities, and...
View ArticleChess Around the World: United Kingdom
Chess is experiencing a renaissance. Thanks to the websites like Twitch, the rise of online chess, and the match between Garry Kasporov and Deep Blue, the game is at its most popular since Bobby...
View ArticleA Look at Chess’s Elite Champions
Grandmasters (GMs) represent an elite tier of chess players. By fighting their way through the ranks, they have achieved the highest ranking in modern chess. But what does it actually take to earn a GM...
View Article2016 Club Championship: Five Survive
The 2016 Club Championship was the biggest Championship in Club history in every way imaginable with a record number of participants, a record number of Grandmasters, and a record number of Club...
View ArticleA Call for Research on Chess and Autism
One of the primary goals of the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis is to encourage and support chess in schools. This provides opportunities to introduce chess to students with...
View ArticleChess Around the World: Armenia
Some nations have always been chess powerhouses, like Russia and the United States. While these two nations are undeniably titans of the game, this blog post focuses on a far smaller nation whose...
View ArticleNational Chess Day: Experts Tie with Grandmaster
In 1976, President Gerald Ford declared the second Saturday of October to be National Chess Day. On Saturday, October 8, the Chess Club hosted the 2016 National Chess Day G/65 Championship to...
View ArticleCompared to What? A Brief Venture into Research Design and the Relationship...
Does playing chess result in better student outcomes? Whether those outcomes are cognitive like mathematics achievement or non-cognitive like confidence, it seems like a straightforward question to...
View ArticleInterview with a Grandmaster: Josh Friedel
This blog is all about digging into the data. Whether you want to explore the impact of chess in schools or the distribution of Grandmasters across globe, the CCSCSL’s research blog has you covered!
View ArticleChess Around the World: Poland
It’s time to take another trip around the world with the third installation of our “Chess Around the World” series! This week we travel to Poland, the second country to add chess to its national...
View ArticleMore Research, More Problems: Fidelity of Implementation in Chess Education...
by Emily Sholtis & Matthew Pepper, Basis Policy Research
View ArticleGM Blog: The Best of Times
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,…” Thus began the famous...
View ArticleA Call for Research on the Gender Gap in Chess
The Chess Club and Scholastic Center of St. Louis (CCSCSL) prides itself in empowering local students to succeed both in academics and in the game of chess. Through its in-school and after-school...
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