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Ttmrm Call MacvV Sunday JLApOJ tfo Teaches Be Jilt i i w-p mm 5-Year-OIds Basic Chess By JOY STILLEY AP Newsfeotvre FIVE-YEAR-OLDS are perfectly capable of learning to play chess and, in fact, that is the best age to start them out, says teen-age chess expert Eric Schiller, who serves as a volunteer teacher to kindergarten youngsters. "The earlier they learn to play chess the more beneficial the ability will be," he says. "Chess playing helps develop more logical reasoning processes and teaches them to think more clearly and evaluate decisions better." The 17-year-old senior at a mm pi Him Schreiber High School in Port Washington, L.I., teaches the fundamentals of the game to kindergarteners at the Flower Hill Elementary School. He is a volunteer for HELP (Heip Educate Little People), a program that places high school students in an assistant teacher capacity in elementary schools. Easier to Teach "I asked for the younger children because I feel they're easier to work with and there's more you can teach someone young," says Schiller.

"I've always had the idea of introducing chess to kids and felt the best place was on the kindergarten level. "I learned at that age, Bobby Fischer did and so did most of the other players I have come in contact with," he continues. "In the United States it may seem early, but in the Soviet Union it's normal." Schiller, who gets a half unit credit per term for working five days a week with his young students, starts out by introducing the 7- rJ r. t3 0 pieces one at a time and letting the kids become thoroughly familiar with how each moves. One 6-year-old has already played in an under-13-year-old tournament.

"I give them general principles that get them going." he explains. "They use basically the same opening all the time, but they are beginning to get some attacking IB schemes down and occasionally get into some defensive things." The youth lists intelligence and a "very competitive instinct" as major prerequisites for the game Though an aptitude for math of ten is not apparent at that age, he adds that the child who plays good chess will be good in math. Started Before Schiller recalls that from the time he was 4 or 5 he played chess with his father or guests in a casual way. In the middle of junior Jsigh he joined a group of 9th-graders who played it a little more seriously. "We entered a tournament and had a crushing defeat," he ad Sale 6.99 and 7.99 REGULARLY 9.99 TO 15.99 Choose from our Heritage collection of delicately styled pieces, all with hand cut floral pattern.

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