i have a 3 months old daughter. i want to teach her chess

i started playing chess in 2012. in three months i learned the basic rules and improved a little my habilities. a few days ago i was surprised i found some friends who would like to play chess regularly and after about 3 years i got back to chess playing to keep up with them. all this thanks to chess.com.

yet, off course i'm a terrible chess player. i need lots of time to train and study lots of tactics and openings. i believe if one wants to be a decent chess player he/she has to start as youg as possible.

well, i was a grown up 25yrs old man when i firstly played it.

but my daughter is yet 3 months old. i want her to have the chance of discovering early the wonder of playing chess. if she likes it then she will have lots of time to learn, beat me and keep up improving with these many online chess players and softwares (since i am not able to teach much stuff regarding chess lol).

so my question is when should i start teaching her and how should i do it to keep her interested? i know its still not the time since she's just a little baby who can't even speak. yet, i'd like to know when and how to start.

i strongly believe playing chess (such as playing a musical instrument, studying maths, among other activities) is good for the brain. it will be a good stimulus for her.

Right after you tought her speaking!

Don't wait till she's 3 or something but anytime before seems like forcing it on her

At this age the best you can do is let her play with the pieces and watch out that she won't swallow them.

think your jumping  the gun-change the diaper first---------where these questions come from god

Typically, kids want to be like their parents and do what their parents are doing.  If she watches you play enough, she'll express an interest in learning when she's ready.  That's how I did!  I wasn't any sort of genius prodigy; I finally wanted to really learn and play when I was 8.  When the time comes; our ChessKid.com site is awesome!

Make a baby mobile out of chess pieces to hang overhead. Anything else is just weird.

My daughter started chess at 5yo, piano at 5yo, and competitive math at 9yo.

Chesstempo, best tutor, and AoPs with math PhD father's library, respectively.

Ironically, you're a Brazilian, and I'm trying to get my son into Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and he doesn't want to do it.

I suggest reading the biography of Judit Polgar.

Yeah, you've got at LEAST 3-5 years until you should try teaching them the basics.

At this age just try and catch her interest by treating the chess game as a toy!once she can speak,count,and learn how to comprehend new things,then begin teaching little by little.i would also reccomend teaching her music and anything else beneficial for the brain.i wish my parents did!!

Also, when she gets old enough, maybe take her places dedicated to these endeavors.

A lot of famous people write books about how they were touched as children when they were at so and so place. I used to take the kids with me on speaking trips to universities sometimes, with this in mind. Did it work as well as Feynman's dad griping about people not changing when you change their uniforms? Who knows! But it was fun.

She'll enjoy chewing on the pieces, Gustav. Might help the teething a bit later on. :)

Susan Polgar won a tournament for under 11s at the age of 4 so starting at four months might take Laszlo's theories to the next level.

Good luck with being a dad.

Or kids do the exact opposite of what you like...and still turn out just fine! My suggestion...just treat them as though they are capable of anything, but deserving of nothing but what they accomplish. 

Show her a pawn. If the reaction of her face is positive, start by showing the queen's gambit declined and the Nimzo-Larssen deffense with its best variations. Don't forget to mention the sicilian and some advices to play againat the sicilian. Explain the the point of moving side pawns in the middlegame and show some famous game during the cold war (explain what is the cold war). Then I would recommend to let her rest until the next day to not over charge her.

lol, your want to teach a three month old to play chess!? first teach her to talk and walk. Maybe show her the pieces and let her play with them.

Tip: use cheap plactic pieces just incase she DOES want to stick them in her mouth...

Oh look it's Reid Barton's dad

interesting answers, mates. in the end i suppose there's nothing i should be doing for now. but as soon as i feel she's read i'll stard teching her.

What I did was beat my kids, not always for any specific reason. But I imagine that beating them with a goal to having them play chess might work. Beat them. Beat them hard.

"Polgár was born on 23 July 1976 in Budapest, to a Hungarian Jewish family.^[4] Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susanand International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to prove that children could make exceptional achievements if trained in a specialist subject from a very early age.^[5] "Geniuses are made, not born", was László's thesis." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r)

i agree with her father but the thing is i don't have 1/10 his skills to pass to my daughter. yet i don't dream of her being something like polgar. anything further than i teach (i mean, the basics hehe) will come from her own interest, if any.

there are many computer resources to play chess nowadays and i believe someone who has real interest in chess (and time for spend on it) can become quite good in chess (not a new polga, yet the enought to have lots of fun and work out the brain).

anyway i liked your suggestion of reading polgas' biography. i may read it.