I must have learnt movements when I was about 9, the same as you. I started actually playing chess more than about twice a year when I became 15. I've just become 16.
What age did you start playing chess?
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I must have been about 13 or 14, I'm 16 now.
I learned how to play 7years old.but started playing games just in 2007
i learned chess when I was 10 year old & playing it often somehow, without any knowledge. but when I came to this site I was learned more & more & understand about openings. I really improved my chess on chess.com only.
about 4-5
I think I started playing when I was about 12. I played a bit through high school and actually helped form a chess club. That was during the Spassky - Fischer match. I didn't play much during college but started studying more in the 1980s. Life took strange and mysterious turns during the '90s and I didn't play much. Just recently I got my good set out of storage and started playing again. It looks like it's going to be a while before I'm near my old level.
Feb 17, 2009
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Summum_Malum wrote:
I never learned to play chess..
LOL...there are days I'd swear the same was true here...
Learned from my father at 6 or 7, played off and on since then (40yrs)
age of wisdom
from 7 to 9
and 15 until now
Learned at age 8. Played a ton of blitz games up until I was about 12 on World Chess Network (now called something else). Just in the past 2 years have I begun to play long games and really study the game.
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Feb 17, 2009
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i learned the rules when i was 11 and have been addicted to it since!!!
Ravi
...haven't started yet. I'm just warming up :)
6-7, played it a fair amount 'till I was 10, took a two year break and then started up again.
about 7-8
I learned the basic movements at 9 y.o. Later I went to a couple of school tournaments but I quit very soon.
Then I have started again here at chess.com when I am 34, and I can say it's the first time I am truly learning and enjoying chess.