Developing Chess Talent by Karel van Delft and IM Merijn van Delft - a new book, to be published in April 2010, contains a chapter on chess and autism. List of contents can be found here.

http://edutechchess.com/whychess.html - an article by Jim Celone that contributes much to the debate on the educational benefits of children learning chess. [Jim Celone is a graduate of Yale University and holds a M.S. in Statistics. He currently teaches AP Calculus and AP Statistics at West Haven High School. He is a USCF Certified Chess Coach and Tournament Director, and coaches the chess team at West Haven High School, winning the Connecticut State Championship in 1997, 1999, 2000 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and the 2004 U1500 National High School Chess Championship. He was honored as 2002 CT Chess Coach of the Year. He runs 13 local elementary school chess programs in the Greater New Haven area.] He can be reached by email at jcel@aol.com.

The Case for Chess as a Tool to Develop Our Children’s Minds by Dr Peter Dauvergne

Scientific American- The Expert Mind [PSYCHOLOGY AND BRAIN SCIENCE] Studies of the mental processes of chess grandmasters have revealed clues to how people become experts in other fields as well.

Benefits of Chess for Children by Dean J. Ippolito

The Brainy Benefits of Chess: How this classic game of strategy makes kids smarter, by Beth Weinhouse

Benefits of Chess for Youth

Benefits of Chess

The Benefits of Chess in Education - A collection of studies and papers on chess and education, by Patrick S McDonald, the Youth Co-ordinator for the Ontario Chess Association and for the Chess Federation of Canada. This is a large pdf file, but it's worth examining because it has some impressive articles.

Chess in Education Research Summary - by Dr Robert C Ferguson. This summary has drawn freely from several sources including Dr Tim Redman’s Chess as Education: Character Assassination or Life of the Mind and Robert Ferguson’s doctoral dissertation. The following studies will be reviewed briefly in this paper:

• Chess and Aptitudes by Albert Frank

• Chess and Cognitive Development by Johan Christiaen

• Developing Critical and Creative Thinking through Chess by Robert Ferguson

• Tri-State Area School Pilot Study by Robert Ferguson

• The Development of Reasoning and Memory through Chess by R. Ferguson

• The Effect of Chess on Reading Scores by Stuart Margulies

• Comparative Study of 5th Grade Math Curricula by Louise Gaudreau

• Playing Chess: A Study of Problem-Solving Skills by Philip Rifner A Review of Key Chess Research Studies

Teaching the Fourth "R" (Reasoning) Through Chess by Dr Robert Ferguson, Coordinator for Gifted Students Bradford (Pennsylvania) Area School District

The Effect of Chess on Reading Scores - District Nine Chess Program Second Year Report by Stuart Margulies PhD