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There is a good reason we never see articles that say things like:
Bruce Pandolfini and Dan Heisman are extolling the power of teaching math to make kids better at chess. Said Pandolfini, “Math is a very logical discipline. Studying math problems gets kids to practice their reasoning skills. This will help them greatly when they play chess with the hope of increasing their Elo rating.” Heisman is trying to get scholastic chess programs in around Pennsylvania to switch at least one club session per week to math.
If you want to learn math, study math. If you want to learn chess, study chess.
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Funny. I routinely give math and science puzzles to my chess students. I relate chess topics such as transposition, triangulation, x-ray, energy of pieces and others to their math or science equivalents. Several of my chess students even have fun math problems listed in their finger notes on ICC. Most of them love math and love chess too.
Are you saying that I’m the only teacher who has thought of this approach? I doubt it!
Michael Aigner
Hmmm, not that I don’t love chess, but I would think one would want to use chess in order to learn math, not the other way around (if it works!). I think it’s more important to learn math, no?
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No F (can I call you F for short 
), I did not / would not say you are the only. I still do say I have never seen an article about anyone doing what you describe.
Perhaps if the details could be explained, your mixing of chess & math, each to teach the other, might make for an interesting article on CLOnline or in Chess Life.
There is no substitute for a teacher who stimulates enthusiasm in his students. Sounds like you have been successful at that.
I remember how cheated I felt when I started the 7th grade, when I saw that the new 6th grade teacher always had numerous chess sets set up in every available space in his classroom.
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