How old where you when you first started chess?
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I started when I was 6
Thank you all for commenting
12 seriously
Thats nice
mf410827 wrote:
I wasn't even a year old mom started buying me jelly chess pieces, they were yummy and my subconscious told me chess is a good thing
then dad bought me a rook shaped costume, i wore it till my 3, never took it off.. not even once. only downside i could only walk in cardinal directions (luckily it wasn't a pawn costume..)
only after i learned how pieces move, and some openings, I could start going to school but i wasn't able to come back (no endgame knowledge yet)
that's how i started, true story
That's great. I mean, that was one way to start. Am I right?
35ish
yo desde los 7 años
Apr 17, 2025
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I started when i was 7. I remember i always opened with 1. a4 or 1. h4 (or with black: 1. … a5 or 1. …h5), because i knew that rooks are strong, and i thought i inmediately have to bring them out. Also, my father, who teached me chess, didn't know about five rules: 1. Castling 2. En Passant 3. The pawns can move two squares forward on their first move 4. The queen can move as much as she want in any direction. my father thought that the queen can move like the king. 5. The king is not on their own color on the board. My father thought that the white king is placed on d1 and the black king is placed on d8.
I love playing chess but sometimes I can't play because I'm a student in a university
I've been playing since i was 5 and im 12 right now
spacecatchess2007 wrote:
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
LOL! I did that! they litteraly copied me!
17, now 18.
ah, cool!
