By playing chess your child can learn to think not only abstractly, but also logically. Considering a lot of available options on the chessboard during the game, he needs to choose the one and only correct move and even to predict what the opponent will answer on the next move.

Chess helps children to improve independence and determination. Inspired by the game, your child will learn to think and to concentrate. He will get many useful skills such as calculation of various moves and its consequences, chess forecasting and the ability to make the correct steps. At the same time, he is forming not only mental abilities, but also personality traits of character.

It is known that professional chess players have different visual memory from most people on the planet. That special skill can be gained by many years of chess training and will remail with a player for a lifetime. For example, Magnus Carlsen, in an interview on 60 Minutes, said that he has memorized 10,000 chess games. When he was 2 year old, he was able to recite all the major car brands of Norway. At age 5, he memorized all the world’s countries, their flags, and their capitals.