How did I start to write this Learning Chess to Improve Math workbook?I started to teach my son chess when he was five years old. At that time, a lot of information I had read indicated that there was a strong relationship between mathematics and chess. My son was interested in chess so what would happen if he carried the same interest in chess on to a subject which would require him to use his chess knowledge? What could chess offer in mathematics education? These kinds of questions sparked my interest in studying the relationship between chess and math. What I had found was there had been many chess or math puzzles published but I was not able to find a collection of mathematical chess problems that was specifically created for youngsters.

In 1995, I was involved in teaching math and chess at the same time and I started to seriously look into the possibility of creating some math and chess hybrid problems. This is how my son and I started to create the first generation of Math and Chess integrated workbook titled Mathematical Chess Puzzles for Juniors ISBN 0-9683967-0-4 and it was archived at National Library of Canada. It is designed and written for the purpose of learning all kinds of problem-solving skills through over 100 mind- provoking and sometimes mind-boggling mathematical chess puzzles. The uniqueness of this book is that only the basic chess knowledge and the elementary math ability are needed to solve most of these puzzles.

I have been working on refining the contents ever since and after almost 20 years of working the first math and chess workbook, I have incorporated many math concepts and today’s version is the fourth generation. This workbook of integrating chess and math puzzles could be used as a supplemental or enriched material to supplement math curriculum.

World’s first and copyrighted Mathematical Chess Puzzles for Juniors workbook

The first edition of workbook Mathematical Chess Puzzles for Juniors created in 1995 was a world’s first. I did a thorough literature and library catalogues searches and publicized my workbook on the internet (including rec.games.chess.misc) resulted in nothing similar to my workbook had ever been published. There was no integrated chess and math workbook ever published for the elementary students at the time when I published my workbook in 1995.

We also published the following workbooks and some of them are available at www.amazon.com.

• Ultimate Math Contest Preparation, Problem Solving Strategies, and Math IQ Puzzles (3 in 1 workbook) Grade 1 and 2 (

• Ultimate Math Contest Preparation, Problem Solving Strategies, and Math IQ Puzzles (3 in 1 workbook) Grade 2 and 3

• Ultimate Math Contest Preparation, Problem Solving Strategies, and Math IQ Puzzles (3 in 1 workbook) Grade 3 and 4

• Ultimate Math Contest Preparation, Problem Solving Strategies, and Math IQ Puzzles (3 in 1 workbook) Grade 4 and 5

• Ultimate Math Contest Preparation, Problem Solving Strategies, and Math IQ Puzzles (3 in 1 workbook) Grade 5 and 6 (student 6979530, teacher 6985906)

• Ultimate Math Contest Preparation, Problem Solving Strategies, and Math IQ Puzzles (3 in 1 workbook) Grade 6 and 7 (student 7060502, teacher 7060972)

• Primary Grades Math (Grades 4 and under)

• Elementary Grades Math (Grades 5 and Up)

• Ho Math, Chess, and Puzzles for Grade 1 and Under

• Junior Kindergarten Math (for Pre-K and junior kindergarten)

• Learning Chess to Improve math

• IQ Math and Chess Puzzles for Juniors Volume 1

• Frankho ChessDoku 3 by 3

• Frankho ChessDoku 4 by 4

• Frankho ChessDoku 5 by 5

• Mom! I Learn Addition Using Math-Chess-Puzzles Connection

• Mom! I Learn Subtraction Using Math-Chess-Puzzles Connection

• Mom! I Learn Multiplication Using Math-Chess-Puzzles Connection

• Mom! I Learn Division Using Math-Chess-Puzzles Connection