Peyton use to play with him, but she won't play with him anymore. I don't know if she finds the game boring, or if her brother was beating her too much....I'm not quite sure.
Anyway, he played in his first tournament and Grandma Jeanne and Mike took him. Mike returned home an hour later. Once they got there, they discovered that they don't let spectators in the room with the players during a match. They are avoiding spectators given hints and clues to the players. Annoying, but I'm sure it would happen, so I get it.....I guess. So Grandma Jeanne stayed and kept us up to date via texts. Jack lost his first match against a kid that lives for chess. Jeanne was talking with this kid's grandparents during the match and they said that is all this kid does!!! When the boys came out that kid told Jeanne, "he's good." Jack gave him a run for his money, but made one mistake and lost. Grandma helped him rebound by buying him some pizza.
He won his next 3 matches. The kid he lost to ended up getting first place. I don't really know how the scoring works in the chess world, but Jack had one loss, to the winner and placed 7th out of 23 for his age group (3rd and 4th graders). Not too shabby of a start for his career in chess.
I asked him at dinner that night if he liked being a nerd.....his response, "no but I like being smart!" HA! GRREAT answer!! His dad finished that conversation with letting him know that he was the president of the chess club, and also the captain of the football team. :) We are striving for well-roundedness, I guess!!
St. Peter ended up getting 1st place in the tournament!!
The top 10 kids in each division won a medal.
Jack and his chess coach, Mrs. Dunn.
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