when should you start?

pkingjacques

General

01 Nov 03 02:22

pkingjacques

Joined: 11 Apr 03
Moves: 3795

01 Nov 03 02:22

hello, my name is alex i'v been playing since i was like 12 and now im 17. do you think i sounld of started earlier or am I ok. when did you all start.

bbarr

Chief Justice

Center of Contention

Joined: 14 Jun 02
Moves: 17381

01 Nov 03 02:29

Originally posted by pkingjacques
hello, my name is alex i'v been playing since i was like 12 and now im 17. do you think i sounld of started earlier or am I ok. when did you all start.

My dad taught me how to play when I was 7 or 8 yrs. old. He stopped playing me when I was 13. 😉

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

Joined: 15 Dec 02
Moves: 53894

01 Nov 03 02:30

You can start playing chess at any age .....
The important thing is that you enjoy it. 🙂

IvanH

huntingbear

Joined: 29 Jun 03
Moves: 3535

01 Nov 03 06:19

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I learned at 13, for no other reason than to play Battle Chess 🙂
I only knew the rules. I didn't start really learning to play until I was 26. If you started too late then I'm hopeless! 🙁

royalchicken

CHAOS GHOST!!!

Elsewhere

Joined: 29 Nov 02
Moves: 17317

01 Nov 03 06:23

Though one wouldn't know from the quality of my play, I learned at 3 or 4. More important than age of learning is frequency of playing. I didn't play much until I joined RHP.

SirLoseALot

Shut Gorohoviy!

Joined: 19 May 03
Moves: 14164

01 Nov 03 08:02

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I learned the game when I was 18.Me and my friend were both unemployed and spend our days in the pub,playing games.After some time we grew tired of those games and there was only this one game left that we hadn't tried.It was called chess.The owner showed us how to play.What fun we had back then.I think it took us 2 years to learn all the rules.The owner was the only one who knew a bit about them,and he only showed us things like castling when he needed it to beat us.LOL Aah,sweet memories 😵

Nowadays,my friend doesn't play anymore,but I got hooked 😉

SirLoseALot

Shut Gorohoviy!

Joined: 19 May 03
Moves: 14164

01 Nov 03 08:36

Oh,and if you want to reach the top in chess,I think you should start no later than the age of ten.
But you don't have to reach the highest level to enjoy this game.In fact,you don't even have to be any good to enjoy it.I think that's the main appeal of this game.

CFC

Zak the mad boy

Stamford Bridge

Joined: 29 Jan 03
Moves: 4519

01 Nov 03 21:35

Started at a club about 6 or 7. Justt haven't stopped since.

sintubin

Joined: 01 Dec 01
Moves: 14745

01 Nov 03 21:44

Originally posted by pkingjacques
hello, my name is alex i'v been playing since i was like 12 and now im 17. do you think i sounld of started earlier or am I ok. when did you all start.

Chess was being played by my father and older brothers every day. I used to watch, picked up the ideas and in-between played 'soldiers' with the pawns. I can't remember when I started playing the game for real, nor when I learned the rules. Certainly long before I could read. Guess: 3?

Gilbert.

usmc7257

semper fi

Joined: 02 Oct 03
Moves: 112520

03 Nov 03 22:08

my father taught me to play when i was five. i played religiously until about the age of 14( a year after i finally beat him) i picked up the game off and on the next few years mostly to take money from friends who used to play me when i was little. i really started to get back into it almost 2 years ago when i joined rhp as mikal182 i quit all my games due to joing the marines and finally got the free time to get back here. i truly missed this site!