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Thursday, 01 December 2011 23:11 |
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 There are many countries where the work of getting chess into the schools is complicated. South Africa is a good example. The national federation has overall responsibility and works, following normal protocol, with both the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Sport. Then there are other initiatives, notably Moves for Life, who now have the involvement of the Kasparov Chess Foundation and also cooperate with the David MacEnulty Chess Foundation. It is not easy to get all the initiatives working together in the same direction. In South Africa they seem to be close to agreeing a unified way forward, perhaps inspired by one of Nelson Mandela’s most famous quotes “It always seems impossible until it's done.”
Our thanks to Emelia Ellappen, President of the South African Chess Federation, to David MacEnulty and to Kelvin Kemm, Watu Kobese, Afrika Msimang and Marisa van der Merwe of Moves for Life. They have all, one way or another, provided some of the material that follows in this lengthy report.
The report is in three sections:
1. From the Dederation's web site.
2. David MacEnulty's report.
3. Moves for Life report on their developments.
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011 18:43 |
 FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov led a delegation comprising General Secretary Ignatius Leong and President's Assistant Berik Balgabaev on a working trip to South Korea. President Ilyumzhinov met the President of the Korea Chess Federation, Hyun In-Suk, who gave an update on the progress of chess development in Korea since she was elected the President in 2007.
KCF has embarked on its own chess in schools program and Ms. Hyun is glad to inform that about 500,000 young children are learning the game. Baduk (or GO) is a traditional board game in Korea and it is very popular among the older generation. However, despite this strong competition, Chess has gained popularity and more children are taking to Chess compared to "GO". |
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Saturday, 26 November 2011 13:29 |
There are many organizations in the United States that work to promote chess in schools. The David MacEnulty Chess Foundation (http://www.macenultychess.org/) is one of them.
 They are funding a project in Belize and we are grateful to David MacEnulty for permission to reproduce their article here. For those of you who do not recognize the name, David MacEnulty is an inspirational chess teacher whose work was the subject of the excellent movie Knights of the South Bronx. But now, further South to Belize ...
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Saturday, 26 November 2011 13:10 |
2011_informe_escacs_escolar_x_fide_endoc97-2003.doc
Click on the link to download the 8 page report.
Alternatively, read it here (but this lacks illustrations and font colour, and that is important in several places):
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82nd FIDE Congress & Executive Board |
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The report(s) to the Congress, other submissions and the minutes are available:
