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henry10 05-Nov-11, 22:16	Kasparov’s “African Dream” by Jackie Ngubeni Garry Kasparov, the world undisputed greatest chess player of all time, visited South Africa to deliver the key-note address for the IBM business convention. I caught-up with him at famed Soccer-City, ground-zero of the 2010 FIFA World-Cup spectacular, just at the outskirt of Soweto. He listened attentively to my two decade long grassroots efforts to popularize chess in schools and the communities. He was readily impressed with the fact that to date we have facilitated more 3 000 teachers and have taught chess to more than 30 000 scholars! He noted with pride the achievements of African players who toiled to become Grandmasters against many odds the likes of GMs. Simutowe(Zam), Adley and Bassem (Egyt). However, he astonishingly with a sense of determination in his voice, pointed to me that these achievements were a tip of the Iceberg and more MUST be done to unearth and stream-line the African child to world-wide chess glory. Garry astutely knows and understood very well that chess is the tool to enhance educational endeavors and it’s a stepping stone to many elite and professional careers. He went on to challenge me to do more! The meeting quickly became an inspiration and a source of good ground-game advice from none other than the ultimate doyen, the culmination and the exhibition of chess par excellence from Russian school. My small delegation of young chess Soweto-volunteers, were completely mesmerized by the depth of knowledge around chess development this humble hero has. However, in all this erudite experience and chess wealth, Garry then dropped what I believe was the mother of all bombshell best news; I call it the Kasparov’s African Dream! The chess maestro, in amongst many of his chess exploits roll-out (trust me I believe this is just the beginning!), revealed exclusively to me that he desires to plant his legacy in Africa by establishing a Kasparov Foundation preferably in Johannesburg as a hub. His model for this he pointed out can be similar to the USA efforts. He painstakingly emphasized the hands-on approach for his involvement as Africa is dearest to his heart!
henry10 06-Nov-11, 01:18	South African Chess Hopes Garry Kasparov to form joint venture with Moves for Life Wednesday, 02 November 2011 Garry Kasparov, World Chess Champion for 8 years and the world’s top rated player for 21 years, is coming to South Africa on 12 November to form a joint venture with Pretoria based chess educational project Moves for Life (MFL), of which President Zuma is patron. Mr Kasparov has announced that he wishes to link his Kasparov Chess Foundation to MFL to take the successful MFL formula to other African countries and that he plans to work with MFL to make Johannesburg the chess capital of Africa. Kasparov stated "I was greatly inspired by the words of President Zuma last October, when he spoke so movingly on the many benefits of chess for children and of his remarkable connection to my beloved game. I am happy to join him and the South African Moves for Life programme in a commitment to bringing chess to schools across the country and for turning Johannesburg into the continental capital for chess." Kasparov will be visiting South Africa as the guest of MFL from the 12th – 15th November to promote the Kasparov Chess Foundation link up with the Moves for Life programme. The Moves for Life programme was launched by President Zuma last year and has since expanded to over 50 schools around the country, resulting in measurable improvement in maths and science performance amongst children Mickey Scheepers, Moves for Life Operations Manager says: "The game of chess impacts positively on Maths, Science and comprehension abilities while also imparting valuable life skills to children. In learning to play chess, children are mastering a wide range of skills such as pattern recognition, classifying information, reasoning by analogy, following principles, calculating possible sequences of events and critical thinking, which in fact helps with all their academic subjects," Moves for Life is now training over 6000 children per week and has trained more than 200 educators in 2011 both to teach chess in schools and also as an extra-curricular activity. According to Kasparov, "The Moves for Life programme is already doing a wonderful job and we expect to cooperate and aid them in developing both their chess and sponsorship efforts. To promote our activities, chess in the media, and to inspire the grassroots, I will personally donate my time, to train South Africa’s most promising young players as well as the country’s elite teams, as I have done in the United States with great success." The mission of the Kasparov Chess Foundation: Africa will be to bring the many educational benefits of chess to children throughout Africa by providing a complete chess curriculum with associated enrichment programs. The foundation promotes the playing of chess as a cognitive learning tool in classes and in after-school programmes for primary and high schools. The Moves for Life programme has both the South African experience as well as the material developed uniquely for the African situation. Through collaboration both KCF and MFL will be able to optimise all available resources and reach their respective goals. "Chess is an individual sport, but promoting chess is not. With your support, Johannesburg will take a prominent place alongside New York, Brussels and Sao Paulo," says Kasparov. In June this year the Kasparov Chess Foundation launched its European leg, based in Brussels. The Foundation has ambitious plans to develop a programme for the entire European Union. On September 20th, the Kasparov Chess Foundation Europe presented its proposal at the Headquarters of the European Union. Recently, Marisa van der Merwe, a trustee of MFL, was invited to Brussels to present the MFL program to officials of the EU. The South African MFL programme was featured on Belgian TV and was given considerable credit. Marisa said: "I was so excited to find that our project, which started in Pretoria, has received this recognition at the EU."

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henry10
05-Nov-11, 22:16

Kasparov’s “African Dream”

by Jackie Ngubeni

Garry Kasparov, the world undisputed greatest chess player of all time, visited South Africa to deliver the key-note address for the IBM business convention. I caught-up with him at famed Soccer-City, ground-zero of the 2010 FIFA World-Cup spectacular, just at the outskirt of Soweto. He listened attentively to my two decade long grassroots efforts to popularize chess in schools and the communities. He was readily impressed with the fact that to date we have facilitated more 3 000 teachers and have taught chess to more than 30 000 scholars!

He noted with pride the achievements of African players who toiled to become Grandmasters against many odds the likes of GMs. Simutowe(Zam), Adley and Bassem (Egyt). However, he astonishingly with a sense of determination in his voice, pointed to me that these achievements were a tip of the Iceberg and more MUST be done to unearth and stream-line the African child to world-wide chess glory. Garry astutely knows and understood very well that chess is the tool to enhance educational endeavors and it’s a stepping stone to many elite and professional careers. He went on to challenge me to do more!

The meeting quickly became an inspiration and a source of good ground-game advice from none other than the ultimate doyen, the culmination and the exhibition of chess par excellence from Russian school. My small delegation of young chess Soweto-volunteers, were completely mesmerized by the depth of knowledge around chess development this humble hero has.

However, in all this erudite experience and chess wealth, Garry then dropped what I believe was the mother of all bombshell best news; I call it the Kasparov’s African Dream! The chess maestro, in amongst many of his chess exploits roll-out (trust me I believe this is just the beginning!), revealed exclusively to me that he desires to plant his legacy in Africa by establishing a Kasparov Foundation preferably in Johannesburg as a hub. His model for this he pointed out can be similar to the USA efforts. He painstakingly emphasized the hands-on approach for his involvement as Africa is dearest to his heart!

henry10
06-Nov-11, 01:18

South African Chess Hopes

Garry Kasparov to form joint venture with Moves for Life
Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Garry Kasparov, World Chess Champion for 8 years and the world’s top rated player for 21 years, is coming to South Africa on 12 November to form a joint venture with Pretoria based chess educational project Moves for Life (MFL), of which President Zuma is patron.

Mr Kasparov has announced that he wishes to link his Kasparov Chess Foundation to MFL to take the successful MFL formula to other African countries and that he plans to work with MFL to make Johannesburg the chess capital of Africa.

Kasparov stated "I was greatly inspired by the words of President Zuma last October, when he spoke so movingly on the many benefits of chess for children and of his remarkable connection to my beloved game. I am happy to join him and the South African Moves for Life programme in a commitment to bringing chess to schools across the country and for turning Johannesburg into the continental capital for chess."

Kasparov will be visiting South Africa as the guest of MFL from the 12th – 15th November to promote the Kasparov Chess Foundation link up with the Moves for Life programme. The Moves for Life programme was launched by President Zuma last year and has since expanded to over 50 schools around the country, resulting in measurable improvement in maths and science performance amongst children

Mickey Scheepers, Moves for Life Operations Manager says: "The game of chess impacts positively on Maths, Science and comprehension abilities while also imparting valuable life skills to children. In learning to play chess, children are mastering a wide range of skills such as pattern recognition, classifying information, reasoning by analogy, following principles, calculating possible sequences of events and critical thinking, which in fact helps with all their academic subjects,"

Moves for Life is now training over 6000 children per week and has trained more than 200 educators in 2011 both to teach chess in schools and also as an extra-curricular activity. According to Kasparov, "The Moves for Life programme is already doing a wonderful job and we expect to cooperate and aid them in developing both their chess and sponsorship efforts. To promote our activities, chess in the media, and to inspire the grassroots, I will personally donate my time, to train South Africa’s most promising young players as well as the country’s elite teams, as I have done in the United States with great success."

The mission of the Kasparov Chess Foundation: Africa will be to bring the many educational benefits of chess to children throughout Africa by providing a complete chess curriculum with associated enrichment programs. The foundation promotes the playing of chess as a cognitive learning tool in classes and in after-school programmes for primary and high schools. The Moves for Life programme has both the South African experience as well as the material developed uniquely for the African situation. Through collaboration both KCF and MFL will be able to optimise all available resources and reach their respective goals.

"Chess is an individual sport, but promoting chess is not. With your support, Johannesburg will take a prominent place alongside New York, Brussels and Sao Paulo," says Kasparov.

In June this year the Kasparov Chess Foundation launched its European leg, based in Brussels. The Foundation has ambitious plans to develop a programme for the entire European Union. On September 20th, the Kasparov Chess Foundation Europe presented its proposal at the Headquarters of the European Union.

Recently, Marisa van der Merwe, a trustee of MFL, was invited to Brussels to present the MFL program to officials of the EU. The South African MFL programme was featured on Belgian TV and was given considerable credit. Marisa said: "I was so excited to find that our project, which started in Pretoria, has received this recognition at the EU."

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