The Recreational Mathematics Colloquium (RMC), organized biennially by the Ludus Association in Portugal, is a premier international gathering dedicated to the study and dissemination…
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Hello John,
Hello John!I want to take your 🥳birthday as an opportunity to let the world know about your huge contribution to Chess in Education.I met…
Mathematical Activities on a Chessboard
Joint Conference of Mathematics Subject Associations Stratford upon Avon 3-5 April 2024 Presentation by John Foley and Hari Neocleous An education conference is the most welcoming…
Checkmate! The Wonderful World of Chess
John Foley, Director of ChessPlus, President of the Kingston Chess Club and an eminent figure in school chess education, has compiled his years of…
Other games on 64 squares
by John Foley & Stefan Löffler If you teach chess for educational motives, you should know about simpler games on the chessboard and how…
The Chess Game against Alzheimer’s
Vilho and Eine Lifländer have lived in the same house in Imatra since 1960. Chess with its black-and-white chequered board and 32 pieces will soon be…
Tiebreaking in Football – an alternative approach from chess
The penalty shootouts which concluded the UEFA EURO 2020 championships were a dramatic finale to a superlative sporting event. The tension was palpable as each…
One in a thousand: the woman who wants to bring maths and chess together
The research shows that if children leave primary school lagging behind in their mathematics then they are at a disadvantage for several years.
Vera Menchik
A Great Life with a Tragic Ending Few people know the story of Vera Menchik yet it deserves to be told. She was the…
Plato Goes to Monte Carlo
A new look at randomising the game and play of chess Dice Chess brings a random element to chess. This is one way of…