How long have you been playing chess?

 Ouch!

Seriously 10 months.

That's a good carving job.

At age 10, about 45 years ago, I got a chess set, bought Horrowitz's(?) Golden Treasury of chess, figured out descriptive notation (I think it was explained in the book) and started playing through games.

Soon after started playing with friends. Wasn't until 20 years later that I joined a club, and saw a chess clock for the 1st time.

 How come the GM isn't red, and why are you disgruntled? I can't believe 280 views, of this post, and less than 1 tenth of them had the decency to answer.

I've been playing chess for a little over a year and a half.  I'm 15 now, although I learned the moves at about 4 or 5 from my dad.  My dad's an ok player.

There's one guy on here that I play with a lot who's rated 1800 and he crushes me every game, even when I do well for a while.  Eventually, I slip and he catches me.

Take this recent Dutch I played with him for example:

hi i have been playing for years and still get creamed by good players. But every now and again I lay the wood to some players, too, so I think it is all a matter of keeping of good cheer and enjoying the game, taking the losses with the wins.

I learned how the pieces move in 1972 at the age of nine.  It's all Bobby Fischer's fault I have this obsession with chess. Didn't become a member of the USCF until about 1995.

I couldn't even spell chess at your age, ha ha.

i"m  try to play about 5 year and startet with 40

 I may be an idiot, but why did you resign?

I was going to drop a pawn near as I could tell, and that's all he needs against me.

I don't know enough about it to tell.

I learned how how to play less than a year ago and began playing about 5 months ago.

I learned the moves around 1974-75, I think. All I remember is my dad's chess set where the white bishops had black "hats" and the black bishops had white "hats." I wonder what happened to that chess set...?

more then 20 seconds ago can't be more precise...

Playing 36 years, 31 years clubs and tournaments.... my best days are long gone.

About 55 years, WOW !!!

started about '67 played first tournament and first GM in '71 - finished one place behind Julian Hodgson played it semi-serious (Congresses, Clubs, Internationals, etc) for years, then stopped abruptly about 15 years back when radio-journalist friend asked me why I played chess as start of interview and I couldn't come up with answer Just started this online malarkey when got the interweb thingy about 8 months ago I is a bit rusty, but plan to enter a couple of Congresses again once I've blown the cobwebs away

My little sister taught me how the pieces move in 1968; my uncle showed me again within a few years of that. In 1975, I discovered chess books and started to play with a sense of purpose. I played USCF correspondence chess 1979-1981, then drifted away from chess until buying Chessmaster 2100 with my first computer (an 80386 with 1 MB RAM and a 20 MB hard drive) in 1989. In 1995, I entered my first rated OTB tournament.