WHO TAUGHT YOU HOW TO PLAY CHESS

My brother taught me how the pieces move when I was five. However, because he was such a--let's just say jerk since this is a family friendly site--jerk, I was put off by the game. So, it would be most accurate to say that I am finally being taught how to play by the King and the people on this site.

I envy those of you who had a loving father to teach you the game--my dad didn't play--as opposed to a malevolent older brother.

to Paulo

 Portugal, 1980s, I was in my early teens, te seasons come regulary and the spring just arrived. I and Paulo endup,with a chess board and a book (chess step by step) took on low from the local library, on a hood where we use to play cowboy v indio stuff. the Sun smile , 25 windless degrees, into the shade under a pine tree, we laught at first "jump"of a Knight, rushed into castle -   "can see nothing'

"all ready night"

"my home"

"last play black"

"go withe"

"if you carry the chess board i run faster"

sadly is family moved to an other town and the old board endup under paint's cans a few springs later.

2000s, so over a life time, in england was the hottest year ever! I found this place where a chess board keeps moving table to table and people cueing for turn, they are: England, Scothland, Ireland, India, Pakistan, Caxemir, Afganistan, allmost forgot brov from Jamaica and I from Eart.

We had to many games and talks to, some things we all agreed:

 peace

God is only one no matters what you call him

    ...

it's a maravilhous game, the spring comes early, the seasons are ...., more and new kind of birds arrived, who cares, into the shade under a tree this bunch of guys around a board. I play with Afganistan he used the open I use now days (Benk's open) I still don't do like he did for so many times but w'd like to think I still lorne, so now on chess.com whom I have to be greatfull.

love...

I started to learn and play at school (early 1970's) enjoyed it very much.  Not many other children liked to play so I had to play against the teachers.  Then moved to my next school it was never played.  Always asked if people could play, they say yes but nothing more would come of it.

In the 1980's I bought computer chess and started to play again, but its not quite the same as playing against another person, so I am glad to have recently found this site, Its a great game, makes you think all the time, plus you are learning all the time, so hopefully you can improve and get better.

Tim

I taught myself from books and then with the assistance of my teacher when i was about 9.

He is IGM Michael Adams father.

Beat him several times whilst a club player and Michael once, though he was about 10 and I was at the top of my game at 15. and he was probably having a very off day. I discovered girls at chess club and my career went downhill until now

My dad first taught me years ago while I was in grade school in the early 80s, but he was more interested in defeating me than in helping me to learn to play the game capably after teaching me the bare minimum necessary knowledge to push pieces around so, of course, I lost interest.

 I started playing Go seriously about four years ago. It bothered me that though I became a fairly decent Go player, I still had no extra insight when looking at a chess board. Maybe eight months ago I bought Chess for Dummies, The Chess Player's Bible, Everybody's 2nd Chess Book, and a $50-ish Excalibur electronic chess set at TRU and started studying in earnest until life obligations made me put the books aside for a while.

 I had a little travel chess set at work I kept in my locker and soundly defeated one of my coworkers, one who'd claimed to have fairly extensive expertise at the game. That (first ever) victory against a real person kept my interest in the game - and about two weeks ago, the bug bit again for no apparent reason, and I'm back, doing all the problems at chessproblems.com etc.

I. A. Horowitz, Irving Chernev, Fred Reinfeld, Bobby Fischer, Aron Nimzowitsch, Paul Morphy, Joseph Blackburne, Alexander Alekhine, Emanuel Lasker, José Capablanca . . . etc.

 Wonderful.

and i learnt chess by my friend's dad..he taught both of us in 1980s.

Bobby Fischer. Thanks to him there was a chess boom in the 70's. We had a programme on the BBC during the school holidays in the morning sandwiched somewhere between Champion the wonder horse, why don't you?, and Flash Gordon called play chess. I was about 8-10 years old and was fascinated by it. At teatime there was a programme called mastergame which featured two GM's playing a game, and their thoughts were edited in afterwards. This featured amongst others a young Nigel Short and Britains first GM the late Tony Miles. Soon after i got into chess computers and taught myself to understand the game with books.

Chess for me was always that old game. I could never figure out how to plan all the moves so far in advance I would just attack everything that moved. If I ever got lucky enough to be up a couple of peices I had no idea how to corner my enemy and take his King.

I still do not know where I learned the game. Honestly, I have no idea who taught me. It was never a memory. But these days I play every chance I get. I study the oppenings and try to make sense of it. I win some and loose some but most importantly I always enjoy the game, the changing patterns and how the brain see's and does not see the simplest or the most complex things on the board.

I'm hooked. Wanna play? 

i leraned chess when i was 10. no one taught me, just learned from books.

In China, chinese chess is much more popular than chess. Little people know how to play chess.When I went to middle school, i began to play chess on the internet, and met lots of people from different countries.:-)

I'm not certain when I actually learned to move the pieces.  However, I do recall around my middle school years playing with my step-dad and brother.  My step-dad was pretty good, but my brother was a natural.  He picked it up in high-school it seems.  We'd play after school when he got home.

At first he would just pile up on my f7 (or f2).  I learned to get my kindside knight out early.  I remember him killing me with what I later learned was the Fried Liver Attack.  Mind you, my brother to this day refuses to crack open a chess book.  In anycase, I learned a bit from fending off his attacks.  Enough that when I reached high-school, I did pretty good against my peers.