Originally Posted by no5no5
At the risk of totally hijacking your thread (sorry), I'm wondering when/how you all introduced your kids to chess? DD3 keeps asking me to teach her, but I can't imagine that she'd have the patience yet.

In K. Our area has a very strong tradition in chess, many kids learn and compete in tournaments regularly. Most kids (that I know of here) who are good chess players started in K because schools have chess clubs. A few started before going to K. It really depends on the kid.