Can you play chess by yourself

Oct 24, 5. Oct 24, 6. Oct 24, 7. Oct 24, 8. Bobby fischer played against himself when he was younger. Oct 26, 9. Yeah it's nice and good. And may result in schizophrenia!!! Actualy it's boring in opennings, and interesting in midgames and endgames. Good luck : ;. Oct 26, Hate to bring the convo down with this one. Nov 17, Nov 18, Bobby Fischer did this. It's a good way to practice, but there are better ways to get better.

Jan 23, Ironic last post. I heard it can make you go blind. Log In or Join. But you don't just play straight through; you have to consider sidelines and various ideas and pitfalls that might pop up along the way. Because this is such a fundamental part of playing the game, analyzing positions or entire games on one's own, freely exploring moves and ideas while trying to determine best play, is a fantastic way to improve at chess.

Not only does this endeavor have the simple potential to open your mind by exposing you to more and more types of positions and ideas, but it also offers practice at just the kind of thought process that you continually need to engage in internally during a game. One can anylyze existing games, of course, be they grandmaster games or your own past games, but games initiated on the spot serve just as well to offer up new positions in which you have to figure out how to play for each side.

So if, when you play a game against yourself, you don't merely play an alternating sequence of moves until you get a result, but instead do some stopping, backtracking and general meandering, digging deeply to figure out how and why things could proceed differently, then really you're working to develop your analysis skills, and so it could definitely prove beneficial.

If you remain unbiased, playing against yourself will force you to try to find the best or at least good moves for both sides. It is actually a stiff mental exercise. But it gets you thinking, if I do this, what is the other person going to do, and what do I do now, given that the other person has done this. The danger is that you will get into a "rut" and learn only certain types of positions that you are particularly suited for.

I find it extremely helpful to play chess against myself. It is important to remain unbiased. At any given time, I have a chess board on a table which has an active game usually going for a week or two that I play against myself. Playing against yourself will allow you to consider the tactics of your opponent more thoroughly because when you are playing against yourself, your opponent always knows what you are thinking.

This can be important to consider, in that, if I have a forced mate against another player in 5 moves, it really does not matter that we both see it, because in the end, the mate is forced. My point is that even if your opponent sees the correct move coming, that does not diminish the move. I don't believe it is useful to literally play against yourself.

Instead, I'd recommend you spend that time analyzing your OTB losses from the chess club you ought to be attending weekly.

When you analyze a position, you are in essence "playing against yourself", deciding which is the best response to each move.

That can't help but be beneficial, if only to enhance your analysis skills. KinkyKool wrote: Either to play locally with another person, or to use the chessboard to input moves from a game from elsewhere I have written the moves for? May 23, 5. Where on the site do I find the analysis board? May 23, 6. KinkyKool wrote: Where on the site do I find the analysis board?

May 23, 7. May 23, 8. How do I have one side resign or register that a draw has been agreed? May 23, 9. Can I have the analysis board open a PGN already on my computer? May 23, Got it thanks. We are glad to have you on this awesome site! While analysing a game, is there a way to wipe clean all the variation lines? Dec 10, Dec 30, Jan 3, Log In or Join. Forums Hot Topics. Most Recent. Next Post No Motivation? No Problem: How to Be Productive.

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