Educational Chess Summit 2021

Find out how chess can be used as an educational tool in the modern classroom as acknowledged educational experts, teachers and leading thinkers from various disciplines share their views, experience and passion.
And answer the questions you want to see answered:
-Why is chess such an exceptional tool in education in 2021?
-What are the benefits?
-For what age groups is chess recommended?
-How can chess be integrated into subjects like math or language?
-What are the differences between after-school scholastic chess and chess used as a tool in class to develop everyday skills beyond chess, such as emotional intelligence?

Hosts: Judit Polgar and Leontxo Garcia

Speakers and their topics:

- Judit Polgár in conversation with Ernő Rubik about his views on modern education
- Dana Reizniece-Ozola (Latvia): What are the challenges of the education systems in the ever changing labour market during technology era. What are the future skills and how chess can contribute in building up those.
- Jerry Nash (USA): Chess in Education: An Ancient Game Changing the Modern Classroom
- Lorena García (Spain): Chess and emotional intelligence
- Rita Atkins (Hungary): “Chess and Mathematics”
- Éva Gyarmathy (Hungary): Chess and Research. New generational kids, new generational learning
- Fernando Moreno (USA): Developing Social Emotional Skills - Using Chess as a Metaphor for Life
- Jesper Hall (Sweden): Chess – a way to support kids struggling with thinking!
- Bachar Kouatly and David Ros (France): Orsay - Chess education pilot through Vote Chess

The Educational Chess Summit was part of Judit's Polgar Global Chess Festival on 9th October 2021