The sports project of Educachess aims to promote the practice of chess as a sporting discipline and to provide logistical support to chess schools. It also prioritizes chess training for all those —including teachers— who wish to improve their level of play.

Playing chess regularly, besides being a highly stimulating mental activity, is an excellent form of training for developing cognitive and emotional skills. Particularly noteworthy are the main executive functions —inhibitory control, cognitive flexibility, and working memory— as well as other functions such as planning, decision-making, problem-solving, and the development of strategies and tactics.

For this reason, the integration of metacognition within the educational chess approach to learning the game allows regular practice to transfer all these skills both to professional life and to preparation in other sports disciplines.

Moreover, chess is a sport that, while sharing the essential values of any athletic discipline, especially reinforces some of them thanks to its unique characteristics:
– It allows competition on equal terms, regardless of gender or age.
– It is an inclusive sport, suitable for people with visual or hearing disabilities.
– It is highly accessible, requiring only a chessboard and a set of pieces.
– It is played all over the world and has one of the international federations with the largest number of affiliated countries (FIDE).
– It is a sport that demands a strong sense of honesty, as any attempt at cheating is regarded as a serious breach of ethics and results in severe personal discredit.
– It facilitates practice and competition through digital platforms.

Educachess promotes several initiatives to:
– Establish agreements between chess federations, universities, and FIDE to offer formal training, such as university master’s degrees in chess mastery.
– Achieve the inclusion of chess in the Olympic Games program.

Sports Proposal Frameworks