Eight I think. It was a long time ago.
How old were you when you started playing chess?
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Oct 20, 2008
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I was probably around 6 years old. It took me at least another six years before |I could beat my father who had no training whatsoever.
I was too something about 4-7 years old, but seriously I stated playing chess 13 ( I am now 14) I am rated 1700 by the way =)
I was three :)
I have only had a couple of pauses after that lasting for about half a year each :)
Moon...;)!
Oct 20, 2008
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#6
Probably 4 or 5. However, between the ages of 12 and 35, I probably played less than one game a year. So I'm making up for a lot of lost time recently!
since i was 5 (now i´m 14) and since i am playing at chess.com i´m playing every day, that´s was not always the same in the past!
i have been playing since i was 8 (im almost 14 now) since a friend taught me how to move the pieces. atm im rated 1820
i started when i was seven at a camp called the deal island chess club the website is called www.dealislandchess.citymax.com i love it.
I was 5 years old. I was skying at the Pirineos mountains and i catch a chickenpox so my mother learned me to play while we were at the hotel .
Blessed virus!!! :)
chesstern wrote:
I was 5 years old. I was skying at the Pirineos mountains and i catch a chickenpox so my mother learned me to play while we were at the hotel .
Blessed virus!!! :)
Cool
I'd have to guess I started playing around 7 or 8 when my uncle first taught me the basics. I'm still learning over 20 years later.
Oct 20, 2008
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#14
um I learned how to play november of last year when i descovered chess through chess.com!! I play at about 1700 level on this site (the only site i play on). And im about 1500 OTB, my dream is to become at least GM so im trying to learn fast. When i lose to someone in OTB I usually come back to beat them in a month or two (exept for some really high rated people i played 2000+)
I was 7. My dad had a chess program on the computer. The computer taught me the basics of how to play. 
DaPharaoh wrote:
um I learned how to play november of last year when i descovered chess through chess.com!! I play at about 1700 level on this site (the only site i play on). And im about 1500 OTB, my dream is to become at least GM so im trying to learn fast. When i lose to someone in OTB I usually come back to beat them in a month or two (exept for some really high rated people i played 2000+)
Nice rating for starting in November
Oct 20, 2008
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#17
Learned "how the pieces move" at 7.
Learned that "knowing how the pieces move" and "knowing how to play" are two very different things at the age of 27.
Sometimes I think I'm STILL trying to learn how to play... LOL.
Oct 20, 2008
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Chamb wrote:
I was 7. My dad had a chess program on the computer. The computer taught me the basics of how to play.
Suddenly, I feel very old.
When I was 7, the only computer that could beat a human at chess was HAL-9000.
eight or nine
excelguru wrote:
Chamb wrote:
I was 7. My dad had a chess program on the computer. The computer taught me the basics of how to play.
Suddenly, I feel very old.
When I was 7, the only computer that could beat a human at chess was HAL-9000.
Sorry 'bout that. 
A fictional computer. I had to google it to find out.
How old were you when you started playing chess.
I was about 5.