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Playing chess improves children’s capacity to take calculated risks, study finds
It’s lunch break at a regional New South Wales school and the library is buzzing with excited students.
Key points:
- Chess is increasing in popularity among school students and experts say there are many benefits
- A university study finds playing chess regularly makes children less risk-averse, through exposure to calculated risk-taking
- The study’s authors say the ability to evaluate risks is a skill that will help children in life
Rows of chess boards are out and young minds are ticking.
It’s been known as ‘the game of kings’, but chess has evolved to enjoy a much more modern following and become increasingly popular among Australian schoolchildren.
At Port Macquarie’s St Columba Anglican School, Paul Rikmanis said conditions had been just…
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