Would you say that chess is a hard game to learn?

Anything in this world, even simple things becomes hard when we don't purposely want to learn it. I learned chess when I was 18 because I became interested in learning it. So, if you are really interested, it will be easy for you to learn. And as I teach some young people about chess, they easily understood. But those who thought that it's hard to learn, they usually don't make it! They quit because they don't like to play or learn the game!

Chess is neither hard not easy. You can pick up the basics fairly easily, but there are so many levels you can play at depending on how good you are. You have to think in three dimensions somewhat. As it is not a simple game, intelligence can give you an edge.

Having said that, I am not sure why you will not play just because there are people better than you are when you start. Is that not true of a lot of sports, not everyone is a tennis pro, but that is no reason you cannot enjoy playing a game. My goodness if we too that attitude as a child we would never have learned to walk. Look at all these people who can walk better than I can. You can decide to sit on your diapered @$$ all your life or can take the struggles and falls to learn how to walk.

It is up to you.

Chess is an easy game to learn but very hard to master it.One can easily learn chess if he knows how each and every piece should be moved.But then comes the strategies of openings and the style which makes the game difficult for a beginner.One should have a great memory power and lot of patience to master the game.Yet it is an interesting game and you should learn it for the fun at least.Cheers!

Hi BambooPanda it's never to late to learn anything if you have an interest to learn it. Chess is easy to learn even though people have a perception it is difficult. I taught my son to play when he was six and couldn't judge if he was skilled at it when he only played against me but then one day he had a game with an 80 year old man, an historian, who has been playing chess all his life, and they reached a draw, so I realised he must have developed a skill. I love to see the children playing chess together in the tavernas on hot evenings as it shows that electronic games have still left room for the more traditional ones. The national game is backgammon so it's great to see a new generation of chess players springing up.

The rules of playing chess are not really hard, but simple to understand and a couple of games should be enough for most of the people to get accustomed to the rules. However, playing and mastering chess is not an easy part and that requires a lot of practice and thinking. Playing chess definitely improves your intellect and analytical skills.

No doubt chess is hard game but any other game is as hard to learn as chess. Chess involves only mental presence but as compared other games requires both physical and mental strength of players. So I think chess is less hard to learn and play as compared to other games.

I believe it isn't hard to learn. I remember my classmate before (he taught me how to play chess). The moves and rules are quite easy to memorize. However, the strategy for winning the game can be quite hard especially when your opponent is a chess master. So yeah, my opinion is that chess is easy to learn but hard to win. But with patient and practice, the word "hard" will be omitted as time pass.

That is true. It is difficult in the beginning. You have to wait a lot before you start winning any game of chess convincingly. Chess is not like a team game or sport where you can manage when other team mates do well even if you fail.

There are many subtle things are involved in chess which one need to know before getting good results.

I know many people quit it because they can't stand the beat that they take!

And Chess is rightly or falsely regarded as something that indicates a person's wit. You can read the headlines in magazines "A outwits B" etc. This is also one of the reason why people quit. People can accept a defeat which is depended on physical strength but accepting that you are low in wisdom than the other player hutrs a lot. So many quit playing.

I too felt disheartened to lose so many games in the beginning but I kept saying myself "If you quit, you will never win a game of chess again in life" which inspired me to go on. Later on I beat all those people who used to beat me in the beginning.

Now I play online and plan to play in rated tournaments.

Many discouraged me saying you are already old but I didn't care. I enjoy playing so what age has to do with?

I have a blog on chess: chessbeat.blogspot you can have a look.

If you want to refer some nice chess sites you will get all that information on that blog.

With right training a beginner can become a very strong player within two months!

Happy Mylotting!

Yeah if you are interested in it why not to learn? You can go to a class, or you can learn from TV programs . Or you can even buy some books for guidance . After that you can play chess with others to improve yourself . i cann't play chess either . but i'm fond of jumping chess . When i was a small girl i often play by myself, very serious.

chess is not a hard game to play but the strategies involved makes it a hard game for everyone, planning your winning strategy is much more difficult than learning the game itself and the smarter you are on the chess board the more games you tend to win