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when did you start playing chess?
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Oct 13, 2020
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ChessmateDes wrote:
when did you start playing chess?
As a member of a high school chess club back in 1970, or so. (Hey, it's been 50 years, or so.) But, life took over and I dropped it somewhere in the early 1980's. I restarted about three years ago in 2017 . . . Your move. 
I started when I was 4
Oct 13, 2020
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My mom taught me when I was just an eight week old kitten, she also told me to do as many tactics as possible.......said it would help me with my mouse hunting ! 😾
since the big bang ...(still bad at it tho)
KeSetoKaiba wrote:
I learning the rules of chess at a really young age (about 7 or 8 years old or so) but rarely ever played and never even considered that chess would have ratings or tournaments - I never even heard of what a "grandmaster" was! Chess was just another board game I would play with a few friends at school if we finished our work early.
When I "really" started chess was one day when I literally woke up and figured that I wanted to give chess a try to see "just how good I could get" - purely as a challenge for myself and nothing more. That was the exact day I created my chess.com account and the rest is history
p.s. I've been a member on chess.com for a little over 3 years at this point in time.
I learned at when I like 6 e yo ＼＼\\٩( 'ω' )و //／／
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Around 7 or 8 years old, in the sixties, because my father had a wooden board and pieces. Would play him and my brothers and sisters, and then friends after those early years. It became a favorite family pastime, and there was always the board nearby in the library where the color TV brought us all together.
My efforts were average, at best, and remained that way until I reached my thirties, at which time I bought an Elite Avant Guard 2265 (Fidelity Electronics) wooden auto-sensory board and set. That computer would beat me so easily at only Level 2, that I took on much more formal efforts of study to get better, by learning openings by name from reading Modern Chess Openings.
My play continued to improve when I bought 1001 Chess Puzzles, and I would photocopy whole pages of it, at work, then use the large paper cutter there to cut many puzzle diagrams out efficiently, and stack around 30 of those in my hand to discretely work on my chess while running laboratory experiments, that had to be stood over, but only tweaked a few times an hour.
Then I found chess dot com a few years ago, and participate mostly only in the Daily Puzzle.
I learned the rules in 2018 but played about a year after (2019). but I knew what chess was since 2018.