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Sunburned at a Chess Tournament

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:58:00 GMT

Well, this certainly isn't something that happens all that often, but after spending all day at a chess tournament (at Wellington Elementary in Woodinville) on Saturday, I ended up with a sunburn on my face and arms! It turned out to be a really nice day, which was good, since the waiting area for parents and kids (where the parents spend up about 6 to 7 hours, and the kids spend all the time between matches) was outside. Never seen that before, and it was cold and wet enough when we arrived that I was pretty unimpressed with the idea. In the end though, it was very sunny out there ... and it certainly gave Connor a lot of fresh air between his matches (which were inside the school gym).

Another chess tournament this weekend, last one before the state championship

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 07:42:00 GMT

A new father-son activity for Connor and me has been to go to chess tournaments, spending a few Saturdays throughout the year in some school gym. Starting last year, we started to play chess at home and he enjoyed it so much that we decided to enter into the Shelton View Elementary school's chess tournament in the Kindergarten category. He did well and had a lot of fun, so it has become the hobby of choice around our house. The best thing about taking him to a tournament is that you can't really tell from his face whether he has won or lost when he comes out of a match, he always seems to be enjoying himself regardless of the outcome. Tomorrow's tournament is the last one before the state competition (which he qualified for and we decided to attend as well, since it is in Redmond this year), so I expect a lot more first-time tournament players will be attending in the hope of winning 3 out of their 5 games and qualifying for state.

Connor tries his hand at tournament Chess

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:40:00 GMT

My son, Connor (6 years old), has been playing chess against me for the past year or so... but not very often really, maybe one or two games a month at the most. A local chess club held a chess tournament on February 24th at a nearby elementary school and Connor thought that would be pretty cool, so he entered. I have to admit, I was pretty worried that this would turn him off of chess, because he was really set on winning a trophy. I hate to be negative, but I didn't really expect him to get a trophy and since he had to play five games over the course of a very long day (for a kid), I thought he'd end up pretty frustrated if he lost most of his games. Well, I guess I shouldn't have been worried; he didn't seem to mind at all when he lost, he was happy and focus for the whole day... and he ended up winning three of his five games, and placing 3rd for his grade level (Kindergarten).

I guess we'll be playing more chess going forward.... good thing a Chess game ships with Vista :)

Connor Getting Out Of School

Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:16:00 GMT

Video: Connor gets out of School

For those of you who aren't in my family... no worries... I'll stop with the videos now :)

This video seems a bit choppy to me... although the source material was just as good as the previous ones... hmm...