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Who taught you chess and do you remember the first time you won a game against that person?

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my dad, ...ended up beating him later that night!

(with a baseball bat)

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My grandmother taught me. I can't remember when I first beat her, but I bet she was letting me win anyway as I was only about 8.

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Originally posted by onyx2006
my dad, ...ended up beating him later that night!

(with a baseball bat)
LOL!

For me it was a 80 something lady. My mum brought me to her house when I was 6 before I had to go to school. She was doing some cleaning for that Lady.

Beat her around the 8-9 time we play together - or maybe she let me win to encourage me, who knows...

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Originally posted by Valmore
LOL!

For me it was a 80 something lady. My mum brought me to her house when I was 6 before I had to go to school. She was doing some cleaning for that Lady.

Beat her around the 8-9 time we play together - or maybe she let me win to encourage me, who knows...
LOL - can't believe you beat an 80 year old lady....

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My dad, but he never played to win.

He always played for a stalemate or draw through repetitive position/checks. He said it was harder for him to play for a stalemate or repetitive check/position draw, than it was for him to play to win; and boy did he get a lot of stalemates and draws against me.

It amazes me to this day how he managed to get a stalemate or draw in so many ways.

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My dad. I was 5 at the time. I didn't beat him until I was 7.

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If we could have a look at our first moves, I am sure we will look other people's game in a less condencending way 😳

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Nobody taught me
as a kid I bought a chess box , I read the rules inside and that's it
later I bought a chess engine to play since nobody wanted to or knew how to

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Originally posted by HFRorbis
Nobody taught me
as a kid I bought a chess box , I read the rules inside and that's it
later I bought a chess engine to play since nobody wanted to or knew how to
How old were you and what attracted you to the chess box?

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Originally posted by Valmore
Who taught you chess and do you remember the first time you won a game against that person?
I was 13, in a sleepaway camp.
I hated the place, and was always trying to run away.
The administrators of the camp, had a guy teach me chess, to keep me occupied.
The guy was an alcaholic, who had a general lousy attitude about life.
The way he taught me the way the pieces moved, was to describe the
movements, etc, and when it came to the royal couple:
"The king is an old man, he can only run one square at a time.
The queen is a young woman, and a bitch.
She wants to get her way, so she can move all over the board"
or something to that nature.

At least i remembered the way the queen moved.
Still trying to figure out how "the horsey" moves.

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I learned to play from the Merit Student's Encyclopaedia when I was about 7 or 8. Taught my sister how to play and beat her a few games. Soon afterwards she got better than me and kept beating me. She has hardly played now so I have since overtaken her again. Although between that age and now, I hadn't played chess regularly until I joined this site.

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Originally posted by Valmore
If we could have a look at our first moves, I am sure we will look other people's game in a less condencending way 😳
I didn't even learn anything about opening theory until I was around 22. Even then I didn't take it seriously, just continued to play awful first moves and had no plan whatsoever. I only really started reading chess books about 5 years ago.

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Originally posted by Valmore
LOL!

For me it was a 80 something lady. My mum brought me to her house when I was 6 before I had to go to school. She was doing some cleaning for that Lady.

Beat her around the 8-9 time we play together
With a baseball bat?

I guess someone must have taught me the moves when I was a child, because I mostly knew how the pieces move when I started playing almost two years ago. It was probably my father (although he doesn't remember doing it) or my brother. I can't remember playing any games of chess as a child. When I took up chess as an adult, I didn't play a human until I knew I wouldn't look like a total idiot.

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my dad just showed me the moves, he couldn't really play as such. Then I was hooked, went off and bought an electronic chess set, then discovered "castling". That's when i started beating my dad... he never heard of it - LOL - and refused to play me after that :-) Still makes me laugh... to this day he still thinks I'm making that up!