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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Why Royalty Chess?

ROYALTY CHESS ACADEMY
Since its inception, has been committed to imparting basic and advanced chess skills particularly into young studious minds to improve their cognitive abilities. Chess is ideal for comparing human intuition vis-à-vis the brute force of calculation, because it becomes clear to see at what point how the simple calculative process involved matches the results based on human intuition. There is plenty of proof that teaching chess amongst youngsters particularly in schools helps improve results in testing, improves attitude, self-confidence, logical thinking, and responsibility. With chess man would do better in social behavior and in general education, so that's why there is little doubt that chess could be very effective as an important educational tool.
WHY ROYALTY CHESS
If chess education is a must then so is chess instruction by royalty group of coaches if u don’t agree or u wonder “why can’t I just employ some random person to teach my kids chess?”, then the following will convince you:
1. THE EXPERTISE: Our coaches are well trained to ensure that your child is not just learning a game, but that the goal of chess is achieved i.e. the child’s logical and analytical development.
2. THE TRAINING PLAN: We operate with a globally recognized training curriculum a prototype of that of the Richmond junior Chess Club U.S.A. Also there is a star promotion system in place i.e. one star to two star etc with an apex rank of four stars for exceptionally gifted players. Their ranks are reflected on plastic cards called the “TAG OF HONOUR” owned by every club member. As a reward for greatness players with outstanding achievements have their names permanently engraved in the ONLINE HALL OF FAME.
3. THE FRAMEWORK: The Royalty Institute belongs to a group of affiliate chess education bodies who bring schools together from all over the country for regular All Primary School Chess Championships prominent of which are:
a. The Annual Pedachess Championship [June]
b. The Annual Candy Kids Chess Festival [November]
c. The Annual Ikorodu Regional Opens [May 27]

An academy is supposed to be a place where anybody no matter his default reasoning power or ability can actually be educated on the rudiments of a particular course or discipline. It should be open to people of different works of life; the academy should be foundational enough to carry along even the feeblest of minds that enroll into the academy on a regular basis. There must be clear-cut improvement on the knowledge of the course being taught to the trainees after every training session; this of course indicates progress. Which is only possible if the right paraphernalia are used and by the best hands, the course of study must also be of relevance to that very environment where it is been taught. Relevance is the most important requirement because what is the use been taught something that is effete (worthless).
The relevance of chess to life in its entirety cannot be over-emphasized as it has so much to do with man’s relationship with the complexities of life, in the sense that man copes with life’s puzzling situations at every stage of his life which is synonymous to activities that go on, on the chess board. This provokes man to a state where he has to apply his thinking abilities to situations and challenges that is wrapped around life basically for the purpose of devising ways around these situations. Man becomes a strategist, an orchestrator, a skimmer and ultimately an executioner of his devious plans and intentions to overcome life itself. But as long as the King on the chess board cannot be captured and taken of the chess board like its other officers (Queen, Bishops, Knights, Rooks and Pawns), so also can life not be overcome by man because of his blatant and inevitable end. The issue is that life always comes with all kinds of riddles at every stage of man’s existence; even when he begins to feel contented with having solved a puzzle (which of course has become past). A saying goes “life is a battle” the verb ‘is’ there indicating an ever present phenomenon that is apart from the fact that it is continuous, it has been like that, has never changed and would never change.
The Royalty Chess Academy has just the right paraphernalia to educate and develop the intended chess players (young minds in particular) who can then apply the virtues got from regular play of the game to real life situations. With careful observation, it has been found out that solution to life’s pressing problems could be solved better by those who have high calculative propensities. This and more are what chess can offer on a platter beyond value; the great mathematician Machiagelis (Max) Euwe (world champion; 1935) once said that playing chess is solving puzzles.
Although, chess had been a popular game in Russia for centuries, state support now led to the formation of chess clubs in trade unions and youth groups, with chess masters traveling widely to educate and recruit new players. The number of registered chess players grew from 1000 in 1923 to 24,000 in 1924 and 150,000 by 1929. By 1934 there were 500,000 registered players; the number grew to nearly 2 million by 1960 and to over 3 million in 1976. At its peak in the early 1980s, the Soviet Chess Federation (which succeeded the Chess Section) had at least 4 million members, about a quarter of who were schoolchildren. There is still a very high probability for chess lovers to attain half the world’s population and therefore making the world a highly developed terrain. This is because at the moment domination of the chess world has not been ascribed to a particular country or region as other less developed nations are weaning precocious players. At a time the great American Bobby Fischer was the youngest world champion then another greater champion emerged by name Garry Kasparov.
With all hands on deck the academy has a couple of kids who have shown depth in chess knowledge who not only are a challenge to their peers but also to the young chess world. 10 year-old Alex, 10 year-old Cyril, 5 year-old Evangeline, 5 year-old Bolagbade, 7 year-old Precious, (surnames with-held) e.t.c. all from Potters School, Ikorodu, then 10 year-old Sherriff, 11 year-old Aishat, 11 year-old Taiwo (surnames also with-held) e.t.c. all from NEPA Staff School Egbin. Nigeria might just be the next country to herald the youngest world champion even though as it is there is no record of a world chess champion from this part of the world.

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