Design on SlideShare. Serious Games Initiative. Total Engagement. Video Games As Learning Tools. Productivity Games - Ross Smith. "The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strenghtened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have points to gain, and competition or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or want of it.
By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First, Foresight... Second, Circumspection... Third, Caution... And lastly, we learn by chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable change, and that of persevering in the search of resources. That final paragraph is inspiring to read, even 300 years later. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17th, 1706.
He trained to be a printer, traveling to England for two years as a teenager to learn the trade. Finally,