I'm interested in who taught you to play?

My answer: my mother. This was over 40 years ago, when I was about 12. She taught me on this tiny little wooden peg-board travel chess set (I kept it for years until I lost it somewhere along the way). I don't know why she did -- I actually don't remember ever actually playing a game with her. I do remember playing some kind of solitaire chess where I would turn the board around, playing both sides, making believe I didn't know the brilliant-sneaky plan I had formulated from the other side. I never played anyone live until years later.

So who taught you to play?

thats a pretty cool story, well written. you should be an author

ummm i remember someone kid in pre k teaching me but my dad actually played games with me.

Pre K? I'm impressed!

I actually asked my dad how to play when I saw him playing a chess game on the computer, and he taught me the moves.

My father when I was 4.  Practically at gunpoint.  I was NOT interested at 4 =]

My dad when I was like 8? 10? We had a chess set around the house so I asked and he showed me how to play. He wasn't very good, just knew the basics, and took an extremely long time when we played so I became disinterested. Also my friends weren't too good either (I remember them being amazed at my scholar's mate ability :D), so I really had nobody to play with, so I didn't play. Until like 2 years ago I picked it back up. Interwebs are pretty cool. 

My aunt taught me how the pieces move. In 1972 we were watching a news sound bite about Bobby Fischer being the first american to become world chess champion in ages. My aunt said she knew how to play chess so I begged her to show me the moves. She thought I was too young at nine to learn chess but finally relented. In a few days I was beating her on a regular basis. It's funny that she thought I was too young considering how early kids are taught chess today.

My grade 5 schoolteacher taught us to play. I should go thank him, he is probably still around.

haha, thanks Frequent_flyer. if memory serves, it was because he brought it for show and tell

In 1972 at the age of 11 my father taught me how to play and we played for years since (though now he plays my daughter)--I will let your imagination figure what was happening in 1972 that made me interested in chess.

I don't know who, but someone in Kindergarden, but we didn't have a clear understanding of the rules, and En Passant and Castle where not used, and the king and queen didn't necessary stay on their respective spots, and sometimes the king started on d and queen on e.

But I rarelly played back then, I took it up again when I signed up on this page, and I've been playing since.

My Father taught me chess when I was 5. In Russia learn chess early because parents assume that it's a part of the Culture.

my dad taught me when i was 6, but when i started to beat him he stopped playing me , he died a few years ago but i always think of him when i open my chess set.He didn't teach me tactics or openings just how everything moved, the rest i learnt at school or worked out for myself.

I personally can't remember how i actually learnt to play. I remember playing in primary school and being pretty bad at chess. My dad and brother (older than me) played chess and I think i learnt from my dad?

In secondary school i started to play chess more and entered school chess tournament and won and from there on i have kept playing chess and now play for a local chess team in a chess league.

bobby fisher, lol kidding, my dad, 

I don't remember anyone teaching me. And now my NY22 chess computer is teaching me.

When I was like 12 there was this book that nobody knew where it came from...It was a chess book for kids. I read it through like four times, and I have been playing ever since...(I'm only 17)

My mom taught me, at about 8. I am teaching my son, he is 7.

My dad taught me how to move the pieces, the castling and stuff..

but we were living in canada for like 2-3 years at the time and he didnt know wht the pieces in english were called, he said horse and castle :D

and yeah i wasnt interested in chess, and about 8 years later i went with a friend to the chess club.. and a Grandmaster was born :D (just isnt a grandmaster yet) :D

I think my father, an uncle, and a cousin -- its been a lot of years ago:  50+