Editing Chess as mental training (section)

[[File:DLS-CSBStudentsplayingChess.JPG|thumb|right|Students of the Angelo King International Center, [[De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde]] in Manila learning and playing chess tactics as mental training.]]
There are efforts to use the game of [[chess]] as a tool to aid the intellectual development of young people. Chess is significant in [[cognitive psychology]] and artificial intelligence ([[AI]]) studies, because it represents the domain in which expert performance has been most intensively studied and measured.<ref name=Perloff1996>{{cite journal | title = Individual differences in chess expertise: a psychometric investigation | journal = Acta Psychologica | volume = 124|issue=3|date=March 2007|pages=398–420 | doi = 10.1016/j.actpsy.2006.07.008 | pmid = 16942740 | last1 = Grabner | first1 = RH | last2 = Stern | first2 = E | last3 = Neubauer | first3 = AC}}</ref>

New York–based Chess-In-The-Schools, Inc.<ref>[http://www.chessintheschools.org/] chessinschools.org</ref> has been active in the public school system in the city since 1986. It currently reaches more than 30,000 students annually.  [[America's Foundation for Chess]] has initiated programs in partnership with local school districts in several U.S. cities, including Seattle, San Diego, Philadelphia, and Tampa. The [[Chess'n Math Association]] promotes chess at the scholastic level in [[Canada]]. Chess for Success is a program for at-risk schools in Oregon.<ref>[http://www.chessforsuccess.org/ Chess for Success]</ref> Since 1991, the [[US Chess Center|U.S. Chess Center]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] teaches chess to children, especially those in the [[inner city]], "as a means of improving their academic and social skills."