Hi! My dd9 just joined the chess club. It was $15 for 6 weeks..She loves the club and the game, but doesn't love that she is the ONLY girl out of 11 kids. Sad really. The girls took drama or knitting...she lost both of her first 2 games...but her second week, she won one game.
I said after the fist week.."Those kids are pretty smart huh?" (The kids are 4th - 8th graders...she's in 4th). She said, "Well, I don't know if they are smart, just that they have a better chess stratagt..." lol...So, she wants to win and losing has only made her better...and I think she is expected to lose cause she's a girl...so she thinks it's okay to lose...and if she wins...well, that's just great...nice, and low stress.
She doesn't really play at home, so it's nice for her to get a chance to do something hard at school.
