Chess improves academic performance

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Despite the fact that chess doesn't involve much reading or math, it develops the skills necessary to excel in things like quantitative reasoning, reading comprehension, and logical thinking, which can greatly improve academic performance. The present research studies the improvement of academic performance with the help of chess. The skills that chess can teach are versatile and can be used in any subject or field that a child studies. Therefore, according to this finding, it can be said that chess affects many factors such as problem solving skills, creativity, critical thinking, active memory, concentration, patience, logical thinking, perception and spatial visualization. Some of these factors are necessary to learn, improve and progress, and once they are learned through chess, they can be transferred to the classroom.