At what age did you start with playing chess ?

and when did you learn the rules of chess ?

I started playing chess when I was 34. We can enjoy playing chess at any age.

I guess 6. I learned every rules except en passant. That's why i consider en passant as secret move!
How about you, @achja?

@Gravija said in #3:

I joined a chess club when I was about 15. A few years before that I learned the rules from my uncle (including the en passant rule). At the chess club I lost maybe the first 5 to 10 games but then won a first game.

i started playing chess at 6, and learned the rules when i was 12.

I learnt the rules at 11, when there was a chess boom in my country because of the Kasparov-Karpov WC (you could even watch to matches live on TV, IIRC). Calling it "play" is too pretentious, I was terrible for taking some mantras too literally ("don't memorize openings", "material advantage is less important that positional advantage") and my own lack of focus ("oh, yes, I forgot that bishop threatening my queen").

Relearned just in February-March.

I'm astonished people can answer this question. Do you people really keep track of what age you had various childhood experiences? I suppose if you learned it in school you could compute an age from a remembered teacher. But otherwise???

@mcgoves said in #8:
> I suppose if you learned it in school you could compute an age from a remembered teacher.

not everyone had a boring childhood like yours. for some of us teachers were not the only variable.

@glbert said in #9:
> for some of us teachers were not the only variable.

Right. That's my point.