Mathematics And Chess

99 puzzles built around the chessboard. Arithmetical and probability problems, chessboard recreations, geometrical puzzles, mathematical amusements and games, more. Solutions.

Chess 4 Math, kindergarten textbook is the beginning of an incredible journey that offers the opportunity to kindergarteners to learn Mathematics through the "Royal Game of Chess." Chess 4 Math provides quality educational activities designed to help students succeed in Mathematics. The author translates the game of Chess into Mathematical lessons correlated to the Common Core State Standards. Chess 4 Math is an original and engaging curriulum that encourages all students to love Math and Chess.

New Math Chess is a two-player educational and recreational game played on ten Digit pieces (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and six Operator pieces (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Power (Square & Cube), and Root (Square Root & Cube Root)). The book focuses on the explanation and applications of four fundamental concepts governing the feasibility and the success of the book: (i) Attachment of Digits to an Operator, (ii) Partial Values of an Operator, (iii) Partial Equality of two Partial Values of an Operator, (iv) Partial Equality of an Operator with its Partial Values. The book provides 20 chess games with solutions for the readers to practice. New Math Chess is flexible and suitable for all students from middle and high schools to universities.

Mathematical chess is a two-player educational and entertaining game played on ten digit pieces (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) and six operator pieces (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, power, and root). The chessboard is a grid made up of nine vertical and nine horizontal lines. It is flexible and suitable for all students from middle and high schools to universities. The excessive use of electronic calculators and games has caused a negative impact on the alertness of the minds and the numerical abilities of students at all levels. Dr Ryan said, In numeracy, the young teenage student in 2003 was approximately a quarter of a grade level behind his or her counterpart in 1964. This was reported in the article Grade Worse Than in 1960s (SMH, 11 February 2008). Students love challenges and competitions. Dr Robert C. Ferguson writes, A learning environment organised around games has a positive effect on students attitudes towards learning (Teachers Guide: Research and Benefits of Chess, 11 October 2006). The above statements drive the implementation of this mathematical chess game. Like European chess and Chinese chess, mathematical chess teaches strategy planning, problem-solving, memory improvement, decision-making, concentration, perseverance, observation, analysis, and organisation skill. Mathematical chess itself also promotes numerical abilities, mental alertness, and speedy calculation. The numeracy performance of students in many countries has not improved since 1960, not because of the incompetence of the teachers, but because an educational game interesting and challenging enough to attract students attention did not exist. Mathematical chess can help resolve this drawback. The authors dream is to see mathematical chess become a popular game in all middle and high schools, and to see the love and passion of mathematics flowering in the minds of young people around the world.

Chess enthusiast Herman Tolbert Sr takes three of the four elements of chess (space, time, force) and parallels a one to one mapping that relates Geometry, Physics and Mathematics in a unique theme he terms "Corridors". Compiling over-the-board tournament experience along with online worldwide games as well as friendly pick-up games, Corridors is a repeated process which eventually zones in on the King or significant material which has game winning advantages. This work hopes to demonstrate Mr. Tolberts classroom teaching skills and his keen analytical ability to breakdown the complex into simpler form(s) Corridors is a combination of whole or partial rank(s), file(s) and square(s) which are controlled to a lasting degree which yield advantageous results. Many chess concepts are conveyed by novice to Grandmasters, but this unique work though not for the very beginner can be applied by the many eager-to-improve players; no matter the skill level. It is with this spirit that Mr. Tolbert wishes to share what he feels is a path of enlightenment, whose fruits of labor is a growth in understanding chess which can only lead to more victories.

The games presented here are mainly 2-person strategic board games and Solitaire Puzzles, when alone. There is a welcome difference between strategic board games and puzzles. A puzzle has a solution and once you’ve solved it, it is not that interesting any more. A strategy game can be played again and again. Chess, the “King of all Board Games”, is not included here as it forms a subject by itself, but there are a few pre-chess puzzles. Bridge, the “Queen of all Card Games”, is also not included as Card games and Dice games involve a certain element of luck; the games here are not based on chance or probability. Apart from Games and Puzzles, there is a small chapter on Mathematical Excursions. These are explorations of non mathematicians like me into the ways of thinking and understanding patterns that mathematicians visualise and analyse for sheer pleasure without any monetary or practical benefit. How can a chess knight’s move over a chess board be beneficial to anybody? But this exploration has been going on for 2000 years. Also, whereas Pythagoras’ Theorem was of great benefit to society, what will proving Fermat’s Theorem accomplish? For a mathematician, the overriding influence of numbers becomes his aim in life.

Discusses the mathematics of the chessboard and its problems, focusing on its history, the knight's tour problem, magic squares, domination, other variations, and independence.

How did I start to write this Learning Chess to Improve Math workbook?I started to teach my son chess when he was five years old. At that time, a lot of information I had read indicated that there was a strong relationship between mathematics and chess. My son was interested in chess so what would happen if he carried the same interest in chess on to a subject which would require him to use his chess knowledge? What could chess offer in mathematics education? These kinds of questions sparked my interest in studying the relationship between chess and math. What I had found was there had been many chess or math puzzles published but I was not able to find a collection of mathematical chess problems that was specifically created for youngsters.In 1995, I was involved in teaching math and chess at the same time and I started to seriously look into the possibility of creating some math and chess hybrid problems. This is how my son and I started to create the first generation of Math and Chess integrated workbook titled Mathematical Chess Puzzles for Juniors ISBN 0-9683967-0-4 and it was archived at National Library of Canada. It is designed and written for the purpose of learning all kinds of problem-solving skills through over 100 mind provoking and sometimes mind boggling mathematical chess puzzles. The uniqueness of this book is that only the basic chess knowledge and the elementary math ability are needed to solve most of these puzzles. I have been working on refining the contents ever since and after almost 20 years of working the first math and chess workbook, I have incorporated many math concepts and today's version is the fourth generation. This workbook of integrating chess and math puzzles could be used as a supplemental or enriched material to supplement math curriculum.World's first and copyrighted Mathematical Chess Puzzles for Juniors workbookThe first edition of workbook Mathematical Chess Puzzles for Juniors created in 1995 was a world's first. I did a through literature and library catalogues searches and publicized my workbook on the internet (including rec.games.chess.misc) resulted in nothing similar to my workbook had ever been published. There was no integrated chess and math workbook ever published for the elementary students at the time when I published my workbook in 1995. In addition, I have updated the workbook since I published the first one 20 years ago with many new and innovative ideas; still my workbook is the only one on the market. It would be devastating for me if some copycat just copied my ideas and formats of worksheets and started to commercialize it. To protect my intellectual property, I am the world's first on the following ideas and concepts and I am the original creator of unique formats of worksheets: