Say goodbye to Student Boredom in class

.... AND a Big Hello to Student Enthusiasm to participate.

Students can get involved and have fun while "playing their way to excellence".

Some students become unnerved when they think that they are subjected to undue pressures that could cause them to fail or do poorly. Ideally, such students should be encouraged to put forth a "best" effort without feeling these pressures. Most teachers would likely agree with this, but they might wonder . . how so? How Might This Be Handled?

Educators from Middle School to University and certainly all Chess teachers in Schools and Chess Clubs . . should take a look at what Steve Preston of Milton accomplished. First, here is one more point to consider. Without a stimulating learning environment to tweak their interest some students could become bored or revert to obnoxious behavior.
Here Are Some Positive Results: This is "How" a teacher with

(i) chess instruction courses and

(ii) curricula courses Succeeded beyond his greatest hopes! Steve Preston, a Middle School teacher in Milton, Ontario, Canada
was able to see the potential of utilizing our NEW invention. . . Chessapeak Challenge® the World's First Successful 4 Player partnership Chess that uses traditional Chess rules. For more than 2 centuries many attempts have been made to create a viable 4 player chess game. According to David Pritchard all attempts have failed because of 2 major problems with pawn Movement. "Chessapeak Challenge® gets over both problems" as stated in his published review in the Autumn 1995 United Kingdom Chess Journal.
Back to Steve: At each chess class meeting, Steve designated 4 students to each Chessapeak Challenge® game board. Chess partners faced each other and therefore, each player had a partner across from him/her, an opponent on the left and an opponent on the right. In a clockwise order each player took his/her turn in order. Since this was a learning mode, players were allowed to discuss chess moves and chess strategies with each other. Therefore, all players were learning from each other.
Results: At the Regional Chess Tournament, this Milton School system (for the 1st time ever) won the Chess Tournament Championship with 4 of their players named as the best .
Educators in School Systems (read this): . . concurrent to his chess teaching Steve Preston structured all his Math classes and all his Science classes around this 4 Player partnership Chess game. His happy students did so well in all his newly structured curricula courses that many parents of other students tried to enroll their children in Steve's classes for the next year. AND other teachers went after Steve for copies of his new course outlines.
Just prior to the Chess Tournament (described above) a publication appeared.

• A full page descriptive review of the 4 player partnership chess game
  Chessapeak Challenge® was published in the Fairplay magazine in Berlin
  Germany November 1997 by Joshen Corts. The ausSCHACHtungen
  article was published in deutch (german). From the English translation,
  the review comments on the origin of the game's name "Chessapeak" . .
  that it was a play on words and that it came from the name of a city on the
  Atlantic coast called "Chesapeake". Here is the English version of Jochen's quote "Chessapeak Challenge is not only a successful play on words, But also a successful challenge of 4 Player Chess" Fairplay Magazine, Nov"97.
• More Positive Results: Adult chess player Denis Chabot lives in the proximity of Quebec City, Canada on the shores of the magnificent Saint Lawrence river. Denis introduced and sold Chessapeak Challenge® games to chess players in the province of Quebec. Denis said that he really enjoyed playing this game. However, there was one specific player that always beat him at all the chess tournaments. One day Denis telephoned and said

" I beat him at 2 player chess 3 times. He cannot beat me now. I got better by playing 4 player Chessapeak Challenge® ".

How Cool is This ! CHESSapeak Challenge® is the instrument. YES,
this Game provides a camaraderie of learning with your peers.

"Play to Learn, have Fun and Excel"

Note: The next step for the Chessapeak Games Co. will be . . .
Internet Play for 4 player partnership Chess . . CHESSapeak Challenge®.

 

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