A short video clip from the NBC Nightly News demonstrates how chess is used at over 50 Washington D.C. public schools. Explaining how chess has helped the students in her classroom, Jacqueline Bruce-Yamin, teacher at Thomson Elementary, says “It’s not just about this one game. It’s about behavior, discipline and problem solving.” Bruce-Yamin goes on to say chess is giving the children a “whole new dimension of thinking that they are not getting from other places”. See the short clip at the MSNBC website link below. You may have to view a short advertisement before the clip begins.

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