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Lesson 1

Lesson goals:

 Excite kids about the fun game of chess
 Relate the cool history of chess
 Incorporate chess with education: Learning about India and Persia
 Incorporate chess with education: Learning about the chess board and its coordinates

Who invented chess and why?

Talk about India / Persia – connects to Geography

Tell the story of “seed”.

There can be possible homework relating to India and Persia. Do online search or lesson in class. What
are the countries called today (which used to be called Persia)? What is the population of India? Which
countries border India? What is the official language of India? Etc.

Introduce “The Chess Board”
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How many squares (64)? How many White / Black squares (32 each)?

What are Ranks (1-8), Files (a-h), Diagonals, Kingside, Queenside, etc.

The horizontal lines going up (1-8) are called Ranks, and the vertical lines from left to right (a-h) are
referred to as Files. Diagonals are rows of squares of the same color slanting across the board. There are
many diagonals on the chessboard. The side with the letters a through d is called Queenside and e-h
called Kingside.

Practice Names of squares. Find a1, c4, g6 and so on.

Stress how chess can be used in the children’s everyday life, such as reading a map. (Geography)

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