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Recognise Chess as a sport

Submitted on Thursday 3rd December 2015

Rejected on Monday 7th December 2015

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)

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Recognise Chess as a sport

Petition Details

Funding for Chess depends on it being recognised as a Sport.
It should be part of the curriculum in schools because it teaches children to use planning and analyticL skills, and also to lose gracefully.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

We're not sure what you mean by "funding for Chess depends on it being recognised as a Sport."

You could start a petition calling for chess to be taught in all schools, and for the Government to provide funding for this.

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