I started when I was 5
How old where you when you first started chess?
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Dec 14, 2023
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#5
Chess for me, began seventy two years ago in 1951, when I was 13, on a boring foggy San Francisco summer day. Six friends and I got several chess books at the library and learned to move the pieces.
We used a red and black checker board and cheap plastic hollow pieces that always fell over all the time. They came in a forty game box. I am now 86 today my birthday. Still moving the chess pieces around . . .
I'm now 86 . . .
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yo i started a club yall should go check it out its called zaza
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Chess for me, began seventy two years ago in 1951, when I was 13, on a boring foggy San Francisco summer day. Six friends and I got several chess books at the library and learned to move the pieces.
We used a red and black checker board and cheap plastic hollow pieces that always fell over all the time. They came in a forty game box. I am now 86 today my birthday. Still moving the chess pieces around . . .
Rich
Happy birthdaay! I hope everyone here wants to be my friends and that you keep playing chess
Dec 14, 2023
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#17
Nine or ten, hard to remember now. It was nothing more knowing how the pieces move. Hell, that's about all i know now. Consistency is my thing. 🤣
7 years old.
Dec 14, 2023
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#20
jaded-lethargic wrote:
When I was 3 years old we had a family desktop computer, and I used to play chess on it everyday. I remember experimenting with different moves and combinations in attempts to get the computer into playing into the traps I wanted it to fall into.
Man that's cool, when I first started playing chess, this was the first thing I did
I started when i was 5.