Top Chess Player Tea Lanchava to become Breath Care for Kids ambassador
17-03-2017
Tea Lanchava was born in Georgia and has been living in The Netherlands for the last 21 years. She is a double youth chess champion, vice-European champion, Dutch ladies champion and member of the Dutch national chess team. She is also co-founder of the ChessQueens foundation whose goal is to raise the level of ladies and girls chess in The Netherlands. As a professional chess trainer she has for years trained chess talent and coached them during world and European championships.
Tea stopped playing chess fulltime in 2006 and she has since made a transfer to the financial world. Together with running her own business, Tea is a managing director for the Luxemburgo-Dutch company Nicanor, which specialises in conventional investments, corporate finance and fund advice. Circumstances in the financial woeld change regularly, just like they do on the chess board. By utilising aspects from the chess sport in her entrepeneurship, Tea is always striving for profitable results for all parties involved.
When asked why she has committed herself to Breath Care for Kids, Tea explains she offers to deliver lectures on chess and make the connection with trade and industry, and combine this with playing simultaneous games and teach the chess game. Furthermore she wants to set an example for otherd by achieving good results at tournaments. Chess can play a positive role towards the goals of Breath Care For Kids.
Sports in general promote social contacts, offers team building and solidarity and teaches perseverence. A lot of research has been done on the benefits of chess on (the brains of) children. Children who played chess proved to perform better at school at skills like logical thinking, problem solving, numeracy, spatial awareness and concentrating. Chess makes children calm and improves thinking.
Chess improves personality development by disciplined thinking, developing initiative taking, decision making, reflecting on the consequences of taken decisions.
Chess is pre-eminently a thinking sport that stimulates problem solving. Every game it will involve new challenges and that is exactly what a child's brian needs.
Together with all the above benefits of the chess sport Tea thinks that nothing beats looking at happy children's faces. It is amazing to see the little children's faces who are staring all fascinated at the magical chess pieces to find the best moves.
The best moves indeed! The best moves that are so crucial to the lives of underprivileged kids. What is more beautiful than helping them make the best moves.
Tea is convinced that the game of chess has enough global exposure to make a difference for underprivileged children.
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