How old were you when you learned how to play chess and what attracted you to ♟ chess.

Yes, I know, mikekalish, - I’ve seen his stats!  There are A LOT of excellent players on my friends list. It’s like “Thanks for friending me, u seem really nice, but if I ever played any one of u, u would 🧽 clean my 🕰 clock!

I learned how to play as a boy but never really got into it until high school. I was the kid who would play blitz on his phone under the table when I should have been listening to a lecture... I never really played seriously until I was out of high school though, and I actually worked at a chess center for a while which gave me the opportunity to play my first serious tournaments for a discounted buy-in. Now I am completed in love with the game!

TheNumberTwenty, I just love stories like yours! ❤️ ♟ 

Right on pegusu 🤙🤙

Coming across Chess.com:

Once, my father suggested me a website to play Sudoku. I discovered that there were other games like Chess, Crossword, Checkers etc. I started playing chess randomly and often lost. I wanted to learn Chess and soon started searching about apps to practice it. I soon found Chess.com and began playing with the bots since August, 2022. Then, I made an account named @Mishailu in the month of November.

My brother played a lot of chess and taught me. I played him off and on but wasn’t really interested much. About a year or two ago I went to summer camp and didn’t really know anyone. I met a boy we’ll call Bob who asked if I knew how to play chess. I played maybe 30 games that week with Bob, and lost nearly all of them. When I got home I ordered my brother to teach me everything. I played him every chance I got and he taught me things to watch out for, various mates, etc. I joined chess.com about a month or so ago. 

I never did meet Bob again but now, thanks to Bob and my brother, I love chess and I love going to summer camp.

My father got me into chess when I was younger. Beating him was the goal. Loved the game. Sadly, after a horrible tournament at the age of 10 I quit. Always kept having a sweet spot for board games and during the covid restrictions at the end of 2020 I picked it up again because my brother and father challenged me for some games. I forgot how much I loved this game and have been addicted ever since.

Two years ago I retired at age 65 wanting to learn how to play golf, play chess and something about the night sky. Well, the night sky is you know, at night! The golf course from our home is a hassle to get to, so, chess it is.

I agree with the other posters who enjoy the game and yes, it is addicting.

After finding Chess.com, I started playing against the bots without having an account in the month of August, 2022. At that time, I used the website but after two weeks, I found out that Chess.com had an app too. I soon downloaded it and started playing Chess there. Soon, after I had created my account, I found out that the website has forums and clubs. Then, I started participating and got engaged in those activities in the forums and all other things.

I was tired of being beaten in checkers…

LOL 😂

I learned chess when I was 11 or 12 I think. I'd always liked board games, but I didn't like the luck in them. In a lot of games its part skill but mostly the roll of the dice that decides who wins, it doesn't matter how well you played. When I learned checkers, I liked it a lot because there's no luck involved.

Then I learned chess, which speaks for itself. Chess is amazing.

I was 13 . . . I am now 85 and I'm still learning . . .

I learned chess in San Francisco from books in the library on a cheap black and red board and cheap plastic pieces that kept falling over . . .

One day in the 1950's I watched Master George Koltanowski performed a blindfold 30 game presentation at the Fairmont Hotel in

San Francisco, California.

 I was impressed when he performed the Knights tour. I became a member of his Chess Friends Association and joined his chess club. We became friends.

At that time I was a rookie at chess. I used to play in any tournament that Kolty would run and I would always win my round robin matches. They were groups of four and we played six games against each other three games as black and white.

I got tired of winning and I would receive a book from Kolty as the first prize.

In his exhibitions KOLTY loved the Max Lange Attack and Pushed the Colle System Opening. . .

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The Turk Knights Tour

It was a favorite of George Koltanowski's.

It's fairly easy I've colored so that you can follow the sequence easier.

Just copy it if you want to.

Start at H8 with Black moving the knight!

Change on D8 to Blue

Change on F8 to  Red

Change on D4 to  Green

Start with one color on the board.

Eventually with no board.

Good Luck!

This is the Turks tour that Kolty used.

I really love how all the kids and the Gen Zs are discovering chess and making it cool all over again. And I agree, chess is life!!!

Chess is life!!! I agree 100% !!

so...long story short i was 5 and my dad was playing with a friend and i was like omg wut the heck is that i wanna play! so yeah...

You were ONLY 5?! I'm impressed!

I just started about a month ago due to a chess club that a friend was going to (she wanted company). I'm seventeen. Intriguingly, it helps calm my nerves.

Side note: Yes and amen, Jesus is King!!

Absolutely!