Chess Writing

"Chess reaches a level of complexity that no other subject reaches, especially at elementary and junior high school. Chess is much harder than math at that level, with math you are just being taught to do something and then you are doing it to different numbers.

"With English, you are reading books but you are writing fairly formulaic things. With chess, kids are really pushed to do their own thinking and figure out their own kind of problems.

"It's really a whole level more difficult and that's a very useful thing for kids."

Elizabeth Speigel - Chess Coach - IS 318, Brooklyn, NY (the most successful public-school chess program in the country)