A regular game of chess also helps train the memory and can help improve overall academic performance.

Playing the game regularly boosts the learning, analytical thinking, concentration, and decision-making abilities in children. For starters, chess helps the brain to develop and exercise. In 1983, he started a career in journalism and successfully combined his passion for chess with his interest in reporting and, over the years, education by focusing on chess as a way to think and its space in the educational curriculum.ĭriven by research and based on personal experience, García, who advocates for the integration of chess in schools, emphasized the many benefits of the game and the positive outcomes of successful integration. The football coach reveals his training methods, how he revolutionized Atlético de Madrid and he shows some of his action-packed life.From discussing its likely origins in India and the birth of the modern chess game in Spain, to highlighting the Cold War symbolism behind the legendary chess match between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer in 1972, chess expert Leontxo García swept his audience through the 1500 year history of the chess game in Keystone’s PAC on 25 September.Īn accomplished international chess player, Leontxo García has met the chess world champions and chess masters of the second half of the 20th century into this century. Radomir Antić: Jaque a la liga (Radomir Antić: Check to the league], Plaza y Janés, 1996.Magistral Ciudad de León, 20 años de ajedrez (Magistral Ciudad de León, 20 years of chess), cowritten with Paraguayan Grand Master Zenón Franco Ocampos, Editorial MIC, 2008.Awarded for the best coverage of the World Chess Championship 1986 in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg), awarded by the Sports Committee of the USSR.Awarded by the University of Oviedo for the 39 programmes of the series En Jaque, broadcast by TVE (1990–91), 'for his exceptional effort in spreading culture'.Listed in 1999 in the FIDE Golden Book 'for his outstanding contribution to the development of chess'.I National Chess Prize 2008 for his effort in spreading chess in 2007.Medal of Sporting Merit ( Consejo Superior de Deportes) 2011.

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