I'm sure that everyone in here has a past with chess, so why not share it? Like how did you get interested in chess? Me, I learned from my uncle when I was little but never really started playing it until about a year ago. Which I've been off and on during that year. So I'm still not very good, but I hope to become better in time. Thats my story so whats yours?

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When I was 2, I gnawed out the wooden bars of mt crib, then carved them into chess pieces, and taught myself to play

No really, I was taught by my dad when I was 8. Played on and off for years using only real sets. Only until I joined here did i ever play on line. And now, I bet I have played more game on here than all others put together. But I still prefer a game on a real board.

link to a thread on the same topic posted awhile back:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/youchess?Ic=1#last_comment  

What thread posted a while back?

Just links to here...

Just decided to learn when i was 18yrs and got given a book and a chess set and said u want to learn here u go and off i went hahahahaha....

P.S. I wrote a more detailed blog months ago if ur interested beyond this.

Guess the link didn't work?  Its called "How did you get into chess?"  you can find it in the General Chess Discussion forum.  Probably have to go back a ways its from like 2 months ago or something

Well I have only been playing for about 3 or 4 months. I first got into it when a my friend told me about it and sence he tought me how to play Ive been woppin his but ever sence. He is on this site by the name _FreakShow_. He has been playing longer then me and now im teaching him lol.

Well I saw it on TV and it looked an interesting game, so I asked my uncle to teach me because he knew the game. I can beat my uncle now I've only been playing for 20 months and I have a rating of 1541 which is good going. But in time I want to get too a rating of 2700.

When I was 11 I learned how to play chess by my friends. There was this one kid who was in the chess club and he was really good. So I asked him if i could play him and when I did I almost beat him but the problem was the knight always confused me on where I could go. He taught me how the pieces moved and we had another practice game and I won! yippie! it made me soooo happy that i continued to play chess with my friends. ♥

I was taught by my dad when I was about 12. I joined a club for a few years but then I quit playing at all for a long time. After some years I started playing again, this time I really wanted to get better. Thanks to the rating system on this site on which you can actually see whether you make progress.

I wasn't able to beat my dad until recently, now I can beat him anytime:)
I'm still trying to get better, with more patience than I had before.

I learned to play when I was younger... but I started to get into it when we had a chess tournanment with all of the Christian schools in Cali. Even though I've never won that tournament, I hope to get a place in the two remaining years of school. So now I practice as often as I can.

I played occaisonaly with my dad, and then I decided to play seriously

Was taught to play when I was 4 by my father, then in Highschool a chess coach became our choir director, and started a club, soon after I beat my dad and we haven't play a game since, The chess coached died in 94 and I gave up the game until one day in 2002 my wife brought home a playstation chess game and asked me to see if I could beat it, I did, and contacted the local chess club, found out there was a tournament that saturday, started playing again, and was frustrated with the lack of tournaments in my area, so I became a tournament director as well, then serve 2 years as president of our state chess association.  Still playing to this day, and hope to reach a 2000 USCF rating before I die.

I have already described it on my profile/blog page.

I learned from my dad. Then, after years of losing, I met a copilot, while working with Air France who taught me the fundamentals. And then, well the rest is history...