Teaching Life Skills Through Chess: A Guide for Educators and Counselors

Lifelong chess player and professional counselor Fernando Moreno believes in the power of chess to help students build critical skills for living. Teaching Life Skills Through Chess outlines his comprehensive counseling model for use with students in individual, group, and classroom settings.

Presenting chess as an analogy to life, Moreno makes sound application of the skills and strategies needed to play winning chess and to make winning choices in life. Filled with references to related educational and cognitive research as well as anecdotal case studies of chess used in counseling situations, Teaching Life Skills Through Chess is an easy-to-follow and practical guidebook for counselors, teachers, and parents working with students of almost any age.

Fernando Moreno earned the Psychology Licensure at Autonomus University in Madrid, Spain and a Master's degree in school counseling from Trinity University in Washington, D.C. He is a National Certified Counselor, a National Certified School Counselor, and a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Drug Counselor in the state of Maryland. He currently serves as a guidance counselor in the Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland where he resides with his wife and two children.