An article buried in a newspaper I read has the Association of Teachers and Lecturers annual conference calling for chess to be classed as a mindsport and schools given funding to teach it.
It goes on to say that the game is "cheap and easy" and urge the government to create a fund for the promotion of such mindsports.
Don't know about the easy bit but certainly cheap.
It was in the National on the day it was posted. Page 17 at the bottom and I really do cover all it said.
That would be nice - the research has been positive for decades though. I've previously tried writing to education minister(s), but I guess it gets lost in the noise. Perhaps one of those online petitions people use could be an idea - if you get enough signatures then it gets debated in the house. etc...don't know...always seems tricky getting to a level of meaningful momentum.
(22-04-2017, 10:13 AM)PeterReidSmith Wrote: [ -> ]That would be nice - the research has been positive for decades though. I've previously tried writing to education minister(s), but I guess it gets lost in the noise. Perhaps one of those online petitions people use could be an idea - if you get enough signatures then it gets debated in the house. etc...don't know...always seems tricky getting to a level of meaningful momentum.
That is actually not a bad idea. If we can get 100,000 people to agree with it in the UK, they are forced to debate it!