A beginner chess book for teachers, chess club sponsors, or parents with young children. A elementary school teacher can use this book as a textbook to incorporate chess into their standards-based math program incorporating National Council of Teachers of Mathematics Standards. Also included are exemplars and rubrics and teacher tips about how to handle situations that frequently occur while students are playing chess. Tried and true analogies that children will relate to are incorporated so that young children can learn chess in an effective and fun way.

National Chess Master Todd Bardwick is one of the nation's leading full-time chess instructors and runs the Chess Academy of Denver and the Rocky Mountain Chess Camps. Bardwick is also the chess columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and a columnist for Chess Life magazine.

Specifications:

• Author: Bardwick
• Book Type: Softcover, 2004
• Notation: Algebraic
• Pages: 192