# Chess

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## Programme

  What does this move do, and what can your opponent do next? In Chess, children take time to look, think ahead and make choices.

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### Learn the rules

      How do the pieces move and how does the game progress?

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### Examine moves

      Children explore what options a position offers.

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### Strategic play

      Through gameplay they practise planning and responding to an opponent's move.

## Skills children practise here

- Concentration
    
- Thinking ahead
    
- Weighing up choices