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- Chess_Kids abstract "Chess Kids is an Australian company (registered business name Chess World Australia Pty Ltd ) that provides a range of chess-related products and services to schools, individuals and chess clubs. Services include coaching and recreational programs, and vacation-seminars they refer to as "incursions". Their affiliated retailer, Chess World sells chess equipment and accessories to schools.Chess Kids organises extensive local and regional chess tournaments for students in more than 645 schools across Australia, including the annual National Interschool Chess Championships, with over 9,000 students competing on the regional and national level in 2007.The company was founded in 1998 by chess enthusiast David Cordover, who was only 20 years old at the time. The start-up funds were provided by the cash prize when Cordover won the Nescafé Big Break Award contest for his business plan vision of bringing chess to every school student in Australia. In an article in Teacher: the National Education Magazine, Cordover described the educational and character-development benefits of chess competition for young children; and wrote that "Research has shown that chess confers many educational benefits, including developing problem-solving ability, abstract analytical skill, spatial ability, memory and concentration."".
- Chess_Kids wikiPageExternalLink chesskids.com.au.
- Chess_Kids wikiPageExternalLink national-interschool-chess-championships.
- Chess_Kids wikiPageID "18961440".
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- Chess_Kids hasPhotoCollection Chess_Kids.
- Chess_Kids subject Category:Chess_in_Australia.
- Chess_Kids subject Category:Chess_organizations.
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- Chess_Kids comment "Chess Kids is an Australian company (registered business name Chess World Australia Pty Ltd ) that provides a range of chess-related products and services to schools, individuals and chess clubs. Services include coaching and recreational programs, and vacation-seminars they refer to as "incursions".".
- Chess_Kids label "Chess Kids".
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- Chess_Kids homepage chesskids.com.au.
- Chess_Kids isPrimaryTopicOf Chess_Kids.