The wings of Indo Western Institute of Cultural Arts have the objective of promoting chess in Thailand and Developing Chess as an education tool in today’s education. Chess is one of the most

ancient game with over 2500 years old. It was originated from India and today is one of the second most popular game played around the world in over 150 countries. With over 30 countries have included chess to be part of their curriculum, but it is underdeveloped in Thailand. With the motive of introducing and promoting this game, children and adults not only have fun, but will develop academic and life skills. This has been supported by many researches, playing chess help stimulate creativity and IQ levels.

Introduction

IWICA conducts courses in chess from beginner up to advance level in English and Thai language for children from age 4 years old onwards to adults. Following are the motives and objectives of our academy:

• To promote chess and develop chess to be an effective education, social & mental development tool for children.

• To spread & create awareness about this game & how it can be helpful to our generation & community especially when most of the children are addicted to violent computer games.

• Introduce chess to be a medium among children from all nationalities & to be a mode of interaction, communication & make friends.

• Help children to develop confidence & enjoy the game by organizing different chess events.

• Create awareness of importance of chess in today’s world & education especially for children by introducing chess in schools by giving free workshops, demonstrations & conducting our program at schools & at our centers.

• Encourage schools & universities to introduce chess & organize chess events in their campus by providing our full support & management skills to them.

• Providing platform to children to communicate with all nationalities & develop the feeling of being friend & oneness & have fun by organizing different chess events.

• Providing platform for famous GM, IM & Instructors & Organizers round the globe to introduce their talent to the people of Thailand also.

What We Do

Chess is a game of imagination and strategy, one that providers rules, order and opportunities for intellectual growth. Chess teaches students to think logically and take responsibility for their actions

and consequences.

Chess demonstrates a positive impact on academic performance and emotional intelligence. Evidence indicates that children develop an improved attitude toward school, better attendance, increased self-confidence and respect for others. Chess enhances problem solving, logic and reasoning skills, creativity, concentration, critical thinking skills, memory, cultural enrichment and intellectual maturity. It teaches the students how to organize their work habits, increases levels of patience and persistence and even improves emotional control along with mood management.

General Benefits of Chess

Why Play chess? Chess is a game that peace and war become one. A game that 2 persons with different ideas are gathered and sitting calm to learn each other's idea. Once 2 persons understand each other's idea and problem, they will find the best solution to solve the problems between both, therefore any conflict will never happen. This game helps people prevent violence. So maybe the question should be "why not play chess?". And by playing Chess, it reflects how well the players live their lives.

How chess is helpful? There have been many researches confirming that most who play Chess continuously have more than 15% of Alzimer resistance than those who don't. Chess also helps improving memory capac-ity, consciousness, numeral calculation, concentration, patience, vision, and attitude.

We make chess cool for kids Students will learn how to provide and develop themselves a skill to solve problems "step by step". The Benefits of Chess they earn will be put in a good use for their studies and for any issue that comes in their lives.

levels of curriculum Students will be provided all skills in requirement and how to develop them effectively from the Beginner level up to the Advance level "step by step" together.

chess for grown ups Chess is a game that every age can match for each other. A game that even children and adults can be equal. The participants will be provided all required skills from beginner to advance levels with most suitable and comfortable lectures.

Why we teach chess in schools? Chess also has a lot of benefits in children's learning progress towards education (such as Science, Mathematic, Art), and any mental problems that they may encounter during each growing age step.

Chess Coaching Centers We provide all who is interested many convenient Chess Coaching Centers to participate every week (such as Sukhumvit, Silom, Narathiwat, and a lot more coming up shortly).

Tournaments We hold a tournament once a month or as many as possible with rating given, switchingly from one school to another to help promote Chess and the schools at the same time. Above of all, children and participants are guaranteed an absolute safety with reliable security for all day.

Be a sponsor We ensure that our Sponsors are offered a lot of worth deals and receive full benefits in return.

Conclusion

At the 40th World Chess Congress in 1969, Dr. Hans Klaus, Dean of the School of Philosophy at Humboldt University in Berlin, commented upon the chess studies completed in Germany: “Chess helps any human being to elaborate exact methods of thinking. It would

be particularly useful to start playing chess from the early school days…. Everybody prefers to learn something while playing rather than to learn it formally…it produces in our children an improvement in their school achievements.”

Those children who received systematic instructions in chess improved their school efficiency in different subjects, in contrast with those who did not receive that kind of instruction. Because of the overwhelming research demonstrating the benefits of chess and because of the brain research theorizing the growth of dendrites, chess should be integrated into the school curriculum at the primary level.

Chess is new way of solving the old problem of poor education. From the streets of Harlem to Venezuela’s public schools the sport of kings has been implemented as an effective tool for teaching students to utilize their higher order thinking skills and to strive to overcome personal problems to reach

their full potential. In light of these facts it is not unreasonable to imagine chess as a

broader part of schools in India. Chess could very well be one of the missing components for India to regain its place at the top for educating its young people.

Tel: 02-630-2802Mobile: 081-699-2038Email: info@iwica.com

919/487, Jewelry Trade Centre,41st floor, Silom RoadBangkok 10500 Thailand

http://www.iwicachessacademy.com

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