Che Guevara recognised the role that chess can play in developing what are today called HOTS ‘higher order thinking skills’. He writes “Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect…It is not just a game. It is a weapon of the revolution”

Che was a gamer

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    Both Lenin and Stalin were avid chess players. Chess was promoted vigorously in all schools in the newly formed Soviet Union and converted into a mass participation sport.

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