Chess NYC to open program at Hebrew Language Academy
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Students at the Hebrew Language Academy will get a chance to learn how to play chess this fall as Chess NYC, New York’s largest chess community, is set to start a program there later this month. It’s part of a slow, but growing trend to get chess into the classrooms.
“We’ve been growing pretty aggressively all over the city,” said Michael Propper, one of the directors of Chess NYC. “We worked with one Hebrew academy already up in Harlem and it was a pretty big success so when the Hebrew Language Academy’s principal contacted us we thought it was a great idea to bring our program there as well.”
Through programs like Chess NYC and Chess-in-the-Schools, the game is gaining traction in New York City schools, especially in Brooklyn, where it is seen as a way to teach kids problem solving and critical thinking skills at an early age.