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Elementary Theoretical Preparation - Update

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With many other activities and lessons to deliver, it hasn’t been easy to keep posting here. Still, I’ve managed to update the manuscript of Elementary Theoretical Preparation , attached to the article on the misconception of chess as merely a collection of facts to memorize —a text that, I must admit, lacked the precise grammar appropriate to the rational nature of this discipline. Hopefully though, it’s now readable enough to serve as a reliable resource at all levels of study. On another note, I'm also focusing on an Open Education Project — ECS — whose updates you’ll be able to find on its Telegram channel , along with lessons, instructive multimedia content, and other interactive innovations in chess learning and the cultural promotion of the game. Feel free to subscribe if you believe in free education for everyone:
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From thought to purpose: the abstract dimension of chess and its benefits to cognition and independent judgment

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“The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess.” – Benjamin Franklin The game of chess is both a laboratory and a liminal space: a formally delimited battlefield where rules, pieces, and time create a condensed model of decision-making, a subtle system of interaction between perception and action, where the mind rehearses the translation of the abstract into the defined, of intuition into strategy, and of possibility into consequence. The subtle geometry that constitutes it hides an untamed interior economy: thought in motion, intention put to the test, and consequence made visible on a grid of sixty-four squares. Thus, calling chess a “mere pastime” is to overlook its value as a training ground for the mind: each move is a micro-experiment in translating perception into committed actio...
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