Well....Joshua competed for his school today in the Canadian Chess Challenge and he really had a good time. He along with 4 other class mates won a place at the county/city wide tournament today. They played 8 games each and you get 1 point for a win, 1/2 pt for a draw/stale and 0 pt for a loss....well Josh got 5 1/2 points total. He won 5 games and got a draw on one, lost the other 2. (one of which was a very useful loss because he learned something so valuable! I learned to grab your camera quicker....he lost in under 2 minutes! Very fast little game!) I have to give him credit...he paid attention to what he was doing, he was very polite to all his competitors and he was totally fine with the losses. So because his table had a 4 way tie...he tied 4 ways for the silver metal...one boy named Calvin (Chinese, no surprise there!) won gold at our table (there were 4 tables of Grade 3s). Anyway...he won a place in the "Playoffs" on Saturday in March to choose three players from each Grade level to send to the Canadian Chess Challenge in Toronto. So he's very excited about that! You had to get at least 6 1/2 points or win Gold or Silver to earn a place in the next tournament and Josh qualified. I thought the boy was going to go through the roof with excitement!
Above are a couple pics of the tournament and here is his special medal, he's so excited!
Alright....I'd better head to bed...as the boys are saying 4 more sleeps till we fly away to Seattle!!! I'll post more about that tomorrow! Love you all!
