It's a fun game to socialize over. Get a board and grab a friend head down to a little coffee shop somewhere and make an evening out of it. Good times!

Learning how to play and abide all the rule is easy but to became excel at it is extremely difficult to point that only certain group of people with gifted talent can mastering the skill.For me im definately cant archive that,anyway im really enjoy chess.Most chess game you get download on playstore for free have tutorial mode it will guide you step by step suggest which pieces to move and how it move and what piece is in danger being capture.When you click on any piece it will highlight which way it can move.

Started reading this book on openings in 1973 and it is still available online to my surprise.
Once you get a strong grasp on how to control the game from the beginning then you could be ready for USCF tournament play.

It's not hard to learn the moves and some basic principles, but to be good at it you need develop the ability to see the game as your opponent as well as you see it, to analyse the play as it goes along, to plan several moves ahead; and a lot of practice to do so.

I never managed it!

It’s pretty easy to learn the rules.

If you want to be like ranked or competitive it takes a bit more research and practice I believe. I never really have tried to be actually good

the basic moves shouldn't take you more than a few minutes. some of the weirder cases you might have to spend some time with and or make some notes.

I played when I was much younger. I was good enough to know I wasn't really good.

Chess is one of those games that is pretty easy to learn the basic rules — how the pieces move and so forth — but learning what pieces to move when and why is one of those dark arts that requires copious studying in massive tomes of lore.

basic rules can be learned in 15mins, however no human can play “perfect chess” all the time, showing it has a massive, massive complexity as a game