Using Chess Potential For Improving Welfare Of People With Limited Health Capacities

The articles addresses the practical experience of the Russian State Social University researches in the field of designing a theoretical model and approbating a practical model of a game of chess as a means and mechanism of the process of actualizing the intellectual and activity potential of people with health impairments and disabilities. The aim of the study was to research the pedagogical and heuristic potential of chess training, sportive and recreational activities regarded as an innovative multifactorial tool in the complex system of rehabilitation of people with special needs in the Russian Federation. The researches managed to create an advanced inclusive learning environment using an Internet portal “Chess Planet”, a software complex “Chess Lessons by Anatoly Karpov”, an electronic database “Schematic Thinking”; to structure the levels of the students’ information competence and to introduce the models of competitive activity used in adaptive chess sport, taking into account the sportive and medical classification of disabled people. There was given a formalized description along with a classification of chess information retrieval systems, educational and methodological complexes, electronic textbooks, databases and web game portals. Using the problem integrative field of the theory and practice of adaptive physical education, the opportunities to correct the pathologies of mental and intellectual development of different groups of students were found; it was made possible to reduce communication disruptions in properties and types of attention, memory and thinking.