Sunday, February 1, 2009

Kyler's Chess Tournament

At the beginning of December, Kyler was in his first chess championship. He did a great job and had a lot of fun. He, and 2 other of his close friends, were all competing, so we had a great time together between events. The cutest moment was when he and his best friend, Hayden, played each other. Hayden hadn't won a game yet. Kyler ended up beating him, but didn't want him to feel sad, so he told him he won. Naturally, that caused confusion with the judges. When the boys ran back to find us, they were hestitant to say who won. We couldn't figure out why but left it at that. Soon, the judges came and asked the boys to come back to the competition room. Confused, we just waited until they came back. Apparently, they had each turned in a win for the game. The judges had them replay and Kyler won again. He was so sad that he won. He wanted so much for his friend to win a game. And here's the irony. Kyler hadn't won one either up to that point, but he was more interested in his friend winning than himself. He is so kindhearted that way. I love him for that.

3 comments:

Kerri said...

That's a good story ;) One we would read about in the "Friend"

The Burgoynes said...

Wow. What a great kid.

The Burgoynes said...

Wow. What a great kid.