Chess Tournament...

Lucius has been playing chess everyday, multiple times through the day since the beginning of Chess Club four weeks ago. He's becoming a bit obsessed with it really. I heard about another chess tournament and he told me he really wanted to play. So Saturday morning bright and early we headed to New Brighton to play chess, knowing this was going to be most of my day.

We invited a friend who also likes chess and Lucius was excited to see that his dad had brought him. I thought it was nice to have someone else there I could talk to and pass the time waiting with. Lucius REALLY wanted to win a trophy but I tried to make sure he knew he'd have to work hard to earn it. It was a grade level tournament, which meant that he'd only play against fellow 1st graders. That meant the odds of him winning increased quite a bit because there were only 9 first graders playing. He won his first game, lost his second and then won both his 3rd & 4th game. There were only 4 rounds to play.

 

Little did I expect him to beat that many players but he won the 4th place trophy. His buddy won the 3rd place trophy for 1st grade. Together they won enough games to earn 6 points and win the 1st grade Team trophy (same school/ chess club). They were so beyond excited and they both can't wait to display the team trophy at school on Monday morning. He worked hard for that and still very much loves the game.