The second day of research and practice conference “Chess as an innovating school subject in educational system” work was even more informative and insensitive.

The audience warmly welcomed Republic of Kalmykia counselor of state Elena Pokaninova. She read out the President of International Chess Federation, head of Republic of Kalmykia Kirsan Nikolaevich Ilyumzhinov’s Greeting speech.

Most of the speeches were dedicated to a thought that general chess education can not stand without a scientific basis. Irina Mikhailova Candidate of Educational Science made a speech about “Formation of scientific basis for Pedagogy Department and chess work organization in RSSU”. Igor Suhin Candidate of Educational Science’ report “Chess as an innovating school subject in the context of super national education” evoked a wide response.

Tamara Fesenko (Obninsk), Lada Titova (Satka) and Vladislav Poleckiy (Ukraine) made important for general chess education speeches.

An important role of chess as a school subject advocacy in the leading pedagogic mass media was noticed.  For example “Uchitelskaya Gazeta” was publishing some basic chess education data during 2006 - 2009.

Conference participants were united in a thought that chess promotion into educational system can not be realized without Internet service support. The main sites are USA Chess Federation site, which provides links for the results of important psycho-pedagogical researches, and FIDE committee “Chess in School”chairman Yuvensio Blanco (Venezuela)’ site. At the same time, Mikhail Mel’c (USA)’ report notices that Russian General Chess Education site – the best Russian-language site of child’s chess pedagogic at present. And foreign teachers can only dream to have such source of information.

The audience also warmly welcomed Moscow Chess Federation press-attaché Maria Fominyh speech, dedicated to the publication of her funny and illustrated book “Chess for Friends”. Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik wrote the book preface. Maria Fominyh spoke about fictitious characters copyrights, which is easily forgotten while publishing study materials. She also suggested establishing a child’s national chess magazine. During the conference days the participants were presented with a cute Veronika Kasatkina’s “chess copybook”, badges and calendars with symbols of World Chess Olympiad in Khanty-Mansisk on it, and also with a perfectly edited collection “Problems and prospects of chess education development in Russia: All-Russian research-to-practice conference data ” (Tomsk 2009).

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