Who taught You How To Play Chess

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

my dad taught me.i got more information from chessmaster,grandmaster edition

I learned chess basics from reading the beginner's chess book until the time I had developed self-confidence to play with live opponents. Since discovering Chess.Com I've got the chance to play often against strong opponents thus improving my chess rating too.   

My grandpa taught me, but all he ever did was the Chinese Stonewall and told me to play that as well. His theory for 1. e4 is that it gives your king room to move and the stonewall position was so that opposition pawns cannot capture your pawns, as shown below. However, he left out the fact that a knight can just jump in and make a nice little outpost in the holes in the position.

Royalfork123, welcome. My dad taught me and then I learned from "The Principles of Chess," Znosko-Borovsky's writings, Alekhine's books, and a few others. There has been such an explosion of chess knowledge in the last 10 years that it's unreal.

I don't remember. I've played chess with buddies since I was maybe six. Think I got a chess board when I was eight. I always had an interest in chess but I was 20 when I entered a chess club first time. A chess playing friend introduced me and from him I also borrowed my first chess book, Nimzowitch's My System - in German :) Not having a junior chess career means my blitz ability stinks but I still love fast games.

Hmmm, well I guess I started to play chess in the 9th grade. Wasnt really that good till my senior year where I practily became a master at my school. There was only one person who would always beat me, a teacher, his name was Mr. Word. I think thats how it is spelled. But after high school I stoped playing chess, and only played it when ever I was bored. During those years I taught myself to play.

  I learned how to play chess from a friend in the Army.  He saw how my mind worked out problems, so he said chess would be a game for me to learn.

My Sis...But she's pretty good. Tournament rating is 1400 something...

my brother. when i was 12 or 11 or around that, cant remember. he's 2 yrs older than me. 

my dad. but i got my hands on some chess books as well

My dad taught me around five years old the rudiments and basic strategy,it was maybe 5 years more before I beat him thats what kept me interested at that age the possibility that I could beat someone much bigger than me at something.....

    At my 5 years old aniversary I received a chessboard from one of my cousins (as a present, of course). I asked my dad "What is this squarey stuff, black and white with horses and wood things in it?" He smiled and answered me "It's a chess board." "What is chess?", I asked. "It's a game". "Do you know how to play it?" "Yes, I do", he said, feeling a bit proud. I asked hm to learn me, but we only played 3 or 4 games then. After that, I stopped playing. Only 1 or 2 years later, I went to a chess club because one of my classmates was going there, too and I thought it might be interesting. I asked him about the program and next week I went there. A few months later, I participated at my first chess tournament. Since then, I kept playing and got better and better!

 Cool! My father obviously won on those 3 or 4 games we played, but this wasn't the thing that made me lose my interest in chess. It was that I didn't have who to play with. My mother and father werte at work, my "babysitter" didn't know how to play... and my sister was 3 years old, obviously she didn't know neither.

I learned at 7 from a chess teacher.

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