Kindergarten Chess

[blackbishop]

Something to think about.

The Singapore Chess Federation will hold the 11th National Kindergarten Chess Championships at the Singapore Intellectual Games Centre on Sunday 27th of June 2021 from 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm.

Below is a video of the 2017 event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEunFkHKpYU

[MichaelBaron]

Something to think about.

The Singapore Chess Federation will hold the 11th National Kindergarten Chess Championships at the Singapore Intellectual Games Centre on Sunday 27th of June 2021 from 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm.

Below is a video of the 2017 event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEunFkHKpYU

One thing that comes to mind: EVERY SINGLE KID IS ABLE TO WRITE NAME ON THE SCORESHEET AND RECORD CHESS MOVES!
This is simply fantastic!

[ER]

One thing that comes to mind: EVERY SINGLE KID IS ABLE TO WRITE NAME ON THE SCORESHEET AND RECORD CHESS MOVES!
This is simply fantastic!

well, some adults can do that too!

[antichrist]

well, some adults can do that too!

even on Saturdays

[ER]

In Europe as well in the US teaching kindergarten kids to play chess is common
Don't forge the Polgar sisters case.
Here, you might find some interesting articles on the matter

https://www.ichess.net/blog/chess-for-kids/
https://www.chesskid.com/article/vie...-to-play-chess
although I dislike language such as "Every child is exceptional and brilliant in his own"
I also found some interesting points in this
https://woochess.com/en/blog/what-is...to-learn-chess
In the above there is also the rather overused case of 3yo Misha Osipov vs Anatoly Karpov!

[MichaelBaron]

In Europe as well in the US teaching kindergarten kids to play chess is common
Don't forge the Polgar sisters case.
Here, you might find some interesting articles on the matter

https://www.ichess.net/blog/chess-for-kids/
https://www.chesskid.com/article/vie...-to-play-chess
although I dislike language such as "Every child is exceptional and brilliant in his own"
I also found some interesting points in this
https://woochess.com/en/blog/what-is...to-learn-chess
In the above there is also the rather overused case of 3yo Misha Osipov vs Anatoly Karpov!

There are always young brilliant kids but the Singapore video highlights that there could be MANY kids who are well behaved and acting responsibly and already literate if only educated properly. This is what I love about the video - not just the chess part

[ER]

Although I doubt that any of the world champions listed below learned chess at kinder (not so sure about the pioneer palaces starting age, Michael please help)
here is a list of our supreme heroes: They are listed by the age they learned the game and by chronological order of achieving the title in the groupings

4 yo
Capablanca, Karpov, Kramnik
5yo Spassky, Karlsen
6yo Smyslov, Tal, Fischer, Kasparov, Anand
7yo
Alekhine
8yo
Petrosian
11yo
Lasker
12 yo
Steinitz, Botvinnik
A historical fact I just found out: Steinitz left school at the age of 12 as soon as he had learned how the pieces move, to become a chess professional!

[blackbishop]

In Europe as well in the US teaching kindergarten kids to play chess is common

Here, you might find some interesting articles on the matter

https://www.ichess.net/blog/chess-for-kids/
https://www.chesskid.com/article/vie...-to-play-chess

Nice article about how a kindergarten teacher learnt how to play chess with her class.

[blackbishop]

Women's GM, Alexandra Kosteniuk, dressed for the part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLg3axkBMk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Kosteniuk

[blackbishop]

Something to think about.

The Singapore Chess Federation will hold the 11th National Kindergarten Chess Championships at the Singapore Intellectual Games Centre on Sunday 27th of June 2021 from 2:30 pm - 6:30 pm.

Below is a video of the 2017 event.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEunFkHKpYU

The cute kids are actually Americans. "Check out highlights from the K-12 Kindergarten Chess Champs, held December 8-10 ( 2017) in Buena Vista, Florida outside Orlando."

[ER]

Our very own Melburnian Vineetha Wijesuriya ex Sri Lankan chess Olympian and a very good friend
is running chess kindergarten classes amongst other scholastic chess activities.

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[Craig_Hall]

The age of kindergarten children varies by country - in NZ, children can start school at 5, so generally kindergarten is ages 3-4 which is possibly a bit young for tournament chess. In the USA, kindergarten is what they call the first year of school, so children aged 5-6.

[ER]

The age of kindergarten children varies by country - in NZ, children can start school at 5, so generally kindergarten is ages 3-4 which is possibly a bit young for tournament chess. In the USA, kindergarten is what they call the first year of school, so children aged 5-6.

Not so sure how this can be chess related, maybe FIDE and/or ACF approved chess coaching professionals are the right people to enlighten us, however
Kindergarten and School Year Enrolment in Australia is clearly stated by the appropriate Education authorities.
I do not wish to tread into non/chess related territory, so whatever I post on this matter is strictly related to the thread's topic.

A child’s early education in Australia consists of kindergarten or early learning starting at either 3 or 4 years old and then primary school starting at age 5 or 6.
In general education programs are very similar in each state around Australia, however each state and territory has their own differences to be aware of.

Details here:

https://schoolinfo.com.au/

[blackbishop]

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Chesskids is now part of the Kids Unlimited company.

ChessKid.com is owned by Chess.com.

About Chess.com and Chesskid
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[blackbishop]

Video showing the ages at which players gained the Grandmaster Title. As of 2019, the youngest was Sergey Karjakin who became a Grandmaster at 12 years and 7 months.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzP-S8jcDqo