playing against a captain

ever played a militatary captain b- 4, well i learnt how to play chess alongside with two people. One was diploma holder & da other was a 9yr trained intelligence army, nd his friends were senior captains,including a brigade commander. Believe me, its interesting learning &playing with people like them we leant the rules of the game nd became ... good? all in 7hrs,(3to1) that three of us won against our mentor in the evening of that dy. 

it gives morethan enough, of a good way to start intelligently, most especially 4 an 11yrold child that i was then . Try playing a nilitary 2dy.