Who taught you chess?

My dad!

My older brother, who I just beat recently:-)

cool!

the box came with instructions. I taught myself.

There is teaching you to move the pieces and then teaching you how to actually play. Usually a parent or sibling teaches someone to move pieces. But often it's someone else who actually shows someone how to make it make sense.

yea you have a point Dr.Spundik, bu im talking about who taught you the pieces and how they move..

My sister.

Bobby Fischer. My brother belonged to a chess club in junior high school, and his teacher loaned him the book "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess". I picked the book up one night and opened it; at the beginning was a section explaining every rule of chess. And that's how I learned the rules.

My older brother who was a brainiac. I really didn't get into chess by studying or reading until about 6 years ago.

Classmate in Grade 2. He liked to lick the tip of the Kings and Queen lol, at that time I thought it was cool but now I find it disgusting

My older brother and I learned the basics together by reading the rule guide directions that came with the game. We were 5 and 7 yrs. We learned the moves, played a few games and then lost interest until about 20 yrs. later.

My dad taught me chess. Then I got the book "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" and was soon able to defeat my pops. HAHA...I've been off and on for a logn time with chess but have recently dedicated myself. My goal is to hit 2000 in real tournaments!

learned at my own by observing games

Chessmaster 9000 at grade one taught me chess.

I don't remember who taught me how the pieces move.  It was probably my dad though.

My grandfather when i used to visit his house during my Summer Holidays.

Daniel Rensch.

I learn rules at school when I was 8, but I leave chess because I can't play and learn from anyone. Now I'm 16 and I began to play some online matches about 3-4 months ago. But I always lost because I didn't know anything about chess. I began to play seriously about 2 months ago by joining the local chess club, and now all that I know about chess it's from my own experience, books or from the club teacher.

A cousin who lived kind of far away was in with his family one Christmas, and he brought a set of pieces, open bottomed, cheap plastic ones, and I had a red and black checkerboard. He taught me how the pieces move, and I was in love with the game, but nobody I knew played. About ten years later, Fred Reinfeld taught me what the game was about. Funny, now, many years later, I wouldn't bother opening a Reinfeld book, but I owe knowing how to actually play to him. 

I'm self-taught, so I have a fool for a teacher!

I actually learned how the pieces move from a book back when I was about 10 years old.  It was geared toward kids, but that was so long ago I don't remember what the title was.  I know it had a lot of cartoons showing Midieval soldiers illustrating different points.  I wish I could find it again.

But even though I learned how the pieces move, I didn't learn any strategy or tactics.  Once in a while I played against the computer, but had to have it on easy level in order to win.  Playing chess wasn't something I did all the time until about 3 years ago when I met my then-to-be brother-in-law who was into chess.  He told me about chess.com and my interest in the game was renewed.  I got serious about it and finally started understanding basic strategy and winning games.

I can't get my wife interested in the game, but my 3-year-old son likes to "play chess" with me.  He doesn't know how the pieces move yet but he knows how to set them up on the board.  Whenever my 1-year-old daughter gets old enough I'll teach her how to play as well.