On a related note, can you remember the day you learned how to play chess?
GM Donner did:
"Mr. Donner, who won his first Dutch chess title in 1954 by dethroning Max Euwe, the former world champion, said he remembered the day he learned to play chess, Aug. 22, 1941: it was the day he came home from school to find his father had been arrested by the Nazis."
I can't remember my first lost game either. Nor can I remember any specifics of my last lost game.
I believe I remember my first moves in my first game. I was white: e4 and h3 (get that rook out). I didn't go h4 because I thought that only on your first move could you push a pawn 2 squares.
Oh, on that note, as a toddler my preferred setup was 1. e4 2. d4 3. Nf3 4. Nc3, played so that my king and queen in case of a capture could be recaptured immediately by my knights.
First checkmate was a queen-bishop battery delivering mate on h7, in a Philidor defense I think. First dozen (at least) checkmates against were variations on the scholars mate 
The day I learned was somtime in late July last year. It was after listening to Feynman harp on about chess in one of his Physics lectures. I went to Wikipedia to learn the rules and read some of the history and hopped on Yahoo (where I had availed of the live checkers in my younger days)
I was in church, eating and drinking Jesus, when a disfigured ventriloquist asked me, through his demon possessed doll, if I would wish to participate in a "game". I jumped at the chance! I knew this was no ordinary "game". No. It was the high point in humankind's creativity!
So, we three began a roller coaster ride of a game. The intensity lasted for hours. Finally, with my hand shaking, I made the final mark. "Checkmate!"
Of course, the demon doll from the far reaches of hell, disputed the result, claiming "There is no checkmate in tic-tac-toe". To this very day, I remain unconvinced...
NOT ME
i would not even be certain that my first checkmate was in fact checkmate. i was like 4 when i first learned.
I learned playing "battle chess" on my dad's work computer :) I used to open d4 so that I could get the queen out with 2. Qd3. Hey, she's the most powerful piece, why not bring her out first, right? Today I still open with 1. d4, but I play more solid lines now XD I think my first loss was from something like scholar's mate except with a rook backing up the queen. I think the king and queen were set up wrong because I remember having white and I remember the checkmate being on c2 (well, actually, I remember it being on my left hand side, which mist have been the c2 square). Good times 
I don't really remember my first checkmate, but the first one I remember was about a year after I started playing, and it was one of those queen sac back rank mates (i.e Qf1+ Rxf1 Rxf1#)
I don't remember my first game, but one of the first things I learned about chess (right after the rules and 1. e4) was how to checkmate with a rook, so I guess that counts.
I was in church, eating and drinking Jesus, when a disfigured ventriloquist asked me, through his demon possessed doll, if I would wish to participate in a "game". I jumped at the chance! I knew this was no ordinary "game". No. It was the high point in humankind's creativity!
So, we three began a roller coaster ride of a game. The intensity lasted for hours. Finally, with my hand shaking, I made the final mark. "Checkmate!"
Of course, the demon doll from the far reaches of hell, disputed the result, claiming "There is no checkmate in tic-tac-toe". To this very day, I remain unconvinced...
That was vaguely erotic! I don't remember my first checkmate specifically, but I'm almost certain it was a Scholar's Mate.
This was the first stalemate I ever delivered, and it was in a competition back when I was 13 playing for my school. I recall the wonderful feeling of winning, and then all of a sudden shock at what I had just done. My last queen move was a capture I remember (pawn or knight I recall). An important lesson learned!
I was in church, eating and drinking Jesus, when a disfigured ventriloquist asked me, through his demon possessed doll, if I would wish to participate in a "game". I jumped at the chance! I knew this was no ordinary "game". No. It was the high point in humankind's creativity!
So, we three began a roller coaster ride of a game. The intensity lasted for hours. Finally, with my hand shaking, I made the final mark. "Checkmate!"
Of course, the demon doll from the far reaches of hell, disputed the result, claiming "There is no checkmate in tic-tac-toe". To this very day, I remain unconvinced...
That was vaguely erotic!
That's pretty keen! It was inspired by "Mullholland Drive"(the David Lynch film, not the Roman Polanski crime scene).
I was in church, eating and drinking Jesus, when a disfigured ventriloquist asked me, through his demon possessed doll, if I would wish to participate in a "game". I jumped at the chance! I knew this was no ordinary "game". No. It was the high point in humankind's creativity!
So, we three began a roller coaster ride of a game. The intensity lasted for hours. Finally, with my hand shaking, I made the final mark. "Checkmate!"
Of course, the demon doll from the far reaches of hell, disputed the result, claiming "There is no checkmate in tic-tac-toe". To this very day, I remain unconvinced...
That was vaguely erotic!
That's pretty keen! It was inspired by "Mullholland Drive"(the David Lynch film, not the Roman Polanski crime scene).
Yes, a slick little piece of writing!
yeah its indeed weird, i also cant remember my first checkmate but i can remember the first game of chess i played. were i didnt even know how the knights move or what a checkmate is
One of the few things I can't remember :(.
But for me chess was the same then all other 50 board games my parents learned me as a kid. They didn't know much more than how the pieces moved though.
Sucks, I can't remember mine either :(
Thanks!
You can remember your first car , that first kiss, that first love , that first oh-you know
. But you cannot remember that first checkmate !! LOL me neither !