A few months after I graduated from high school,one afternoon my two older brothers brought home a chess set and began playing.I began asking them how,why and many questions about the moves.Nakulitan seguro si kuya,kaya humiram ng aklat at sinabing "yan basahin mo at di ka na tanong ng tanong".Doon nag-umpisa ang hilig ko na maglaro ng chess. 
i learn chess because of my fathers barber shop business.evryday people will gather around to watch some customers playing chess. i got curious and watch and soon i got intereted in the game.
I was in 2nd grade when my classmates and I decided to go to a classmate's house after class. They had a chess set and my classmate was gracious enough to show me how pieces are moved. I found it fascinating and a few minutes later I was playing the game. I lost my very first game. I was no child prodigy.
I wanted to improve my game so I asked my mom to buy me a chessbook. It helped improve my game a bit but it didn't take long to dawn on me I wasn't good at it but in no way it diminishes my enthusiasm in playing the game and my enthusiasm has been the same since the day I fell in love with it.
my fathers' business is they do chess set using wood lathe machine, but i never so him play, he knows the move, but he doesnt play, my sparing then was my 2 brother and and old man who is a friend of my father i was 7-8yrs old then... the icon im using is the set he made before he died...
the vidio are in youtube type chess zurca
me myself and i :)
May we know who taught you how to play chess. Thank you for your respond.
I learned how to play chess by watching my friends playing chess when I was still young in the late 1950s, but I stoped playing the game because I was appearing in the movies and was dancing the ballroom dancing. I just started playing chess again in the 1990s but not concentrating it because I'm just playing the game for fun, to make more new friends, to refresh/exercise my brain. I don't even read chess books and moves.
Ray Duque III (GMBD), New York City
I learned to play chess by watching friends play the game in the 1960s. Pero itinigil ko ang paglalaro ng chess because I was studying and was in the movies and was dancing the ballroom dance and playing basketball. Itinuloy ko lang ang paglalaro ng chess more or less 10 years ago and I'm still learning the strategy moves of chess dahil napaka baba ng rating ko.
Thank you. How about you? I also posted this topic at the general forum.