The results of this study demonstrate that a truly integrated math and chess workbook can help significantly improve pupil’s math scores. Our observations show that the effect of using a truly integrated math and chess workbook also provides mental entertainment and thought by pupils as more fun than traditional computation practices. Pupils were able to sit longer when working on math and chess integrated workbook than working on traditional computation worksheets.
The result of this research is particularly interesting for children who do not have a high interest in playing chess since the math and chess integrated workbook involves visualization, analyzing, spatial relation and data processing, these types of problems provide high order cognitive skills. Without spending substantial time on playing chess, we believe that children can get the similar benefits of playing chess on cognitive effects by working on math and chess integrated workbooks. This may require further study.

This topic has been "threaded" before over the last several years.
See the following
The Effect of Math and Chess Integrated Instruction on Math Scores
The Effect of Math and Chess Integrated Instruction on Math Scores
The following appears to be a blog:
The Effect of Math and Chess Integrated Instruction on Math Scores - Web Master'S Zone
The Effect of Math and Chess Integrated Instruction on Math Scores : Education
The following is from a Illinois website:
The Chess Academy
Chess and math: a happy couple? : ChessVibes
The following appears to be a study on the subject with mean results:
Chessdom - The effect of math and chess
Also note: That the in a recent reply to a thread on another subject it was indicated that two mathematicians started the process in theory in the 1940's on how a computer can play chess. There is an old computer chess probably one of the first of chess being played on a 6x6 board, with no knights. Possibly the Knight moves could not be programmed. But who knows? The U.S. Navy website which I posted in a reply a few years ago indicated the relation between chess and mathematics.
I recall that in the late 1960's and 70's Mexico taught chess in the schools.
But I have never seen a study.

Looking for Robert Aumann and game theory (Chess) I came across the following:
Games of Perfect Information

Chess is defined as a game of "perfect information", because both players are aware of the entire state of the game world at all times: just by looking at the board, you can see which pieces are alive and where they are located. Checkers, Go, Go-Moku, Backgammon and Othello are other members of the category, but stud poker is not (you don't know what cards your opponent is holding in his hands).

Most of the techniques described in this series will apply more or less equally to all games of perfect information, although the details will vary from game to game. Obviously, while a search algorithm is a search algorithm no matter what the domain, move generation and position evaluation will depend completely on the rules of the game being played!

Oh right sorry i had'nt seen them, will have a look around before i post next time. Cheers for the heads up!!!

Here is an interesting idea about math related chess. You can divide a chess board into two congruent right triangles. As the Pythagorean theorem states, the hypotenuse is both legs squared, added together, and then unsquared (a^2 + b^2 = c^2). Therefore, 64 (8*8) + 64 (8*8) = 128. The square root of 128 is about 11.3. Hmm...


Therefore, when I play the Dragon, my Dragon Bishop is so strong that it goes for 11 squares, farther then any queen has ever traveled before!

I believe I read Octal's great post years ago in some chess book.
Today we have the web:
See Chessboard Dissection Problems: Introduction
The following is copyrighted material. What is missing is the name of the book:
Linked: the new science of networks - Google Book Search
Another book: NonEuclidean Tesselations and their Groups by W. Magnus:
Noneuclidean tesselations and their ... - Google Book Search
The following is a project from UBC.CA but does not list the project:
Build an exhibit on the Pythagorean theorem but with "The semicircle on the .... \item Covering a chessboard with dominoes so that no two dominoes overlap

http://www.pims.math.ca/pi/issue11/p...2-15_proof.pdf
The site includes some cool math jokes.

This thread has some cool ideas. When I was in High School back in the Stone Age, (No color TV, no computers, not even Stereos), math was a bore. It was taught from a text book and you had to memorize formulas, but you did not know why.
I found the College Math easier and more interesting.

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