When I was five or so my twin and I found a set of red/green oriental chess figures with board in my granddad's storage room. We figured out how to play by the pictures on the instruction sheet in one of the drawers. Despite having no idea what we were doing it was fun.
What's your first memory of playing chess?
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just my father shows me a new game
I was in 3rd grade being shown the rules of the game by a school teacher in a room of incredibly over-confident 3rd grade chess players. I didn't have much interest in it at that time and only played once again two years later in 5th grade at the very end of the year. A year after that I joined the chess club in my school and was "being taught" chess by some amateur chess teachers (probably 1200 at best) and the only thing they taught us was to always play 1. e4, which was awful advice at our level. lol
Aside from a junior tournament where I scored 2.5/4 and got a nice little knight keychain as a prize, I didn't get involved in chess until I began playing on chess.com March of last year. The game kept popping up on several occassions and I just decided to take it up.
i was 5 and i was playing with my dad, im 14 now :)
I was sorting through some old boxes today (we are preparing to emigrate), and I found this:
Takes me back to when I first started playing chess around age 10. I was board number 2 that year. Just in case you wondered.