PRIORITIZATION AND STRATEGY During gameplay, chess players must analyze the situation at hand, and make a plan to move a piece based upon any potential threats, or a particular strategy that might help them win the game. Further, players must learn to anticipate the plans of their opponent in an attempt to protect their own pieces. In life, we make a variety of decisions every day. By playing chess, kids learn to think deeply about the decisions they make, and how those choices might affect them or others. While playing chess is always against an opponent, learning to anticipate the moves of others can help kids build empathy to learn what they might do in another person’s place. DECISION MAKING AND TIME MANAGEMENT In chess tournaments, clocks are used to time each player’s turn, and to ensure that no single player takes advantage of their turn by purposely prolonging the game. When l earning to play chess, it’s important that moves are t...