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  • Paul L Dunbar Learning Center
  • Dallas, TX
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Currently, students are invaded by a large number of electronic games that stimulate mechanical thinking. In addition, new technologies and today's society increasingly lead us to a lower capacity for attention and concentration, due in part to the large number of stimuli, the concretion and depersonalization of interpersonal communications, individualism and loneliness. On the other hand, chess, as a game, sport and logical-mathematical activity is a hobby that stimulates students to develop mental abilities and skills, provides them with reflective and analytical thinking that, applied to daily life, improves concentration, reasoning and logical calculation. Chess is a game that needs a partner to compete with, who you will get to know and ties of friendship are established. It is a democratic and non-sexist game, the players are on an equal footing, the same pieces, the same number of moves, it is an intellectual struggle between two people. In chess, you play as a team, because each isolated piece achieves nothing. Although it is the king, the most important piece, only the combination with other pieces makes you reach the triumph. For all these reasons and values, last year I started a chess club in our school, but due to the pandemic, it had to be virtual, thus losing the cooperative and socializing essence of the game. This year, with the health situation improving, we want to be able to start the club in person. But for this we need materials (chess boards, piece and clocks), for which I ask you to collaborate in this project.

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Currently, students are invaded by a large number of electronic games that stimulate mechanical thinking. In addition, new technologies and today's society increasingly lead us to a lower capacity for attention and concentration, due in part to the large number of stimuli, the concretion and depersonalization of interpersonal communications, individualism and loneliness. On the other hand, chess, as a game, sport and logical-mathematical activity is a hobby that stimulates students to develop mental abilities and skills, provides them with reflective and analytical thinking that, applied to daily life, improves concentration, reasoning and logical calculation. Chess is a game that needs a partner to compete with, who you will get to know and ties of friendship are established. It is a democratic and non-sexist game, the players are on an equal footing, the same pieces, the same number of moves, it is an intellectual struggle between two people. In chess, you play as a team, because each isolated piece achieves nothing. Although it is the king, the most important piece, only the combination with other pieces makes you reach the triumph. For all these reasons and values, last year I started a chess club in our school, but due to the pandemic, it had to be virtual, thus losing the cooperative and socializing essence of the game. This year, with the health situation improving, we want to be able to start the club in person. But for this we need materials (chess boards, piece and clocks), for which I ask you to collaborate in this project.

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