How did you guys learn chess

Same way you learned to post in a 1 hr old account.  

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From my dad.

I learned to play in Jr. high school from classmate, when we couldn’t go out for recess because of bad weather.

It was a really weird thing.  I learned from my Aunt's husband's brother in law. He wasn't close to the family, and I don't remember seeing him more than three times from age 10 through 19.  He just happened to be staying at my aunt's the same time I was, for about a week, and he was reading a chess book.  He offered to show me how to play AND gave me the chess book....and I was hooked.

I don't know whether to thank him or curse him.

From my dad who beat me 100 games in a row before i drew a game. 

When was the last time a Timex watch was $5?! Also, I'm awful at the game, but learned it through my dad, and then later basic tactics from a school chess elective.

From my dad when I was 8 i think

who said i have learnt chess?

When i was age 8 my dad taught me and beat me 100 games in a row.

However, by age 9, I was winning from him on a regular basis and he stopped playing me.

There was no internet or any of the mediums you have now. When I was 11 or 12 I could hold my own vs the best adult players in Decatur Illinois where I lived.

At ages 15 and 16 I was hired as Chess Instructor for dozens of schools and hundreds of school kids.

Still, for me, only Chess Life and I had 2 or 3 books. And some information on the Smith Morra Gambit.

Just after graduating from high school at age 18 I played my first USCF tournament game and beat an expert.

After that I bought some more books...[and was into correspondence chess]

My father taught me the chess rules at my age of about 7-9 years. But we played only seldom. When I joined a chess club for the first time, I was in my thirties. 

Some teacher built up a voluntary chess class in my 5th or 6th grade, when I was nine or ten years old. I even bought my first chess book after moving to another school because I missed it - a really basic one which explained tactical motifs like forks, skewers, and so on, also basic endgames and a little glimpse into openings.

With the age of thirteen one of my godfathers took me on a train tour from Germany to Italy. To kill the time he brought a pocket chess set, and we played for hours. Most of the games I won, which I enjoyed as a child very much, to beat a grown up at something, of course. 

When I grew older the suspicion arose in me he might had let me won deliberately. But we lost touch and I never came along to ask him on the usual family festivities we met. Until my mid-twentieth. 

Then I moved to the town where he lived and we met for dinner. I've asked him if he wants to meet for some games of chess. He said: "Uhm, chess has never been my cup of tea..."

Finally I'd got the answer to a question nagging me for years!  

Someone gave me a "No Stress Chess" set from Barnes & Noble.  The board is marked to show you how to set it up, and you draw cards that tell you to move a certain piece and how that piece moves.  I learned by playing against myself to pass the time while I was out on sick leave.  

The local butcher...

Thats a real good Q OP... I really don't know where or who taught me chess... I'm 62 Years old..and cain't remember when I started..  I probably thought, when I was a young'in, that everybody just knew it or something.. Like when fish spawn or ducks migrate.. Just "wired" in! 

I wonder if chess players look down on checker players... I never have but can see that happening,, Kinda' like current flow in a diode.. Forward and reverse bias from an EE perspective. 

My mom tried to teach me, but I could only really absorb the basics when I was a kid and she really just liked wiping the floor with me back then without going into why I wasn't playing very well.  I've seen her play on this site before.  She generally wins some and loses some.  She's hovering somewhere around 1500 or so now and I'd like to be able to beat her sometime in her lifetime.  

Well, the basic rules have been told to me by a friend in a holiday camp when I was a pupil (and christian boyscout). Later on, we played in our club evenings but without having had lessons. Me, I solved the weekly tactic puzzle in the weekend newspaper which my dad regularly was reading. In school there were only two or three serious chessplayers in my class/neighbourclass. All in all, this was no real learning or studying, and most of the rare opponents where better than me, so I lost the motivation. When I was about 16, I stopped playing chess at all cause of started a vocational training in an apprenticeship. But nearly on my 50th birthday, I rediscovered playing chess on my PC (Win7) and since then I practise and play seriously...