Leading UK School offers Chess Scholarship

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Chess is thriving at Millfield. It is available to all pupils as we run separate classes to cater for beginners and recreational players all the way up to those of international standard. Under the expert tutelage of our Head Coach, International Grandmaster Matthew Turner pupils are able to develop their game through personalised study programmes and one-to-one master classes.

Millfield is the premier chess venue in the West of England, and as such Millfield pupils are able to play a whole host of tournaments and competitions onsite, as well as competing nationally and internationally. Current pupils, Cosima Keen and Zoe Strong have represented England at World and European Championships.

The school also offers a Chess Scholarship, endorsed and officially launched by Grandmaster and three times British Champion Nigel Short.

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Big Chess Comeback in UK Schools

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This week, both the Daily Mail and the Independent have carried articles on how chess is making a dramatic comeback in British primary schools. Teachers have come to see it as a major stimulant for improving pupils’ concentration with academics believing it can also be used to improve maths skills.

A total of 175 schools – including those serving deprived areas – have reintroduced the game to the curriculum in the past two years. The charity behind its revival, Chess in Schools and Communities (CSC), is optimistic that the take-up will spread to 1,000 state schools in three years.

As 10-year-old Olivia Kenwright took a break from playing the game during a timetabled lesson, she agreed she was pretty sure it was helping her brain. “It’s really good for helping out with other subjects,” she said.

Olivia is a pupil at Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School in Kensington, in the heart of inner-city Liverpool – one of the 175 schools to start playing the game again. Davidson John, another 10-year-old who was a keen footballer but now prefers the board game, agreed with her, saying, “It can help you with sorting out problems.”

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