Play yourself

I never tried it, but is it possible to play against yourself?

If I do that will my rating go down or does it not recognize the players?

Why would you want to play yourself???

200 percent win rate!!

There are times when playing an opponent that he misses the best move which I had anticipated and prepared for. It is nice to see the continuation.

Once in an over the board practice game I played the moves for myself and my opponent, who had much less experience playing chess than me, and I ended up losing!

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/rude-opponents-4 plz join

What’s a patzer?

Only a patzer would ask

I often play with myself, but never to much, because you could go blind after all. 

It starts Slowly The Blindness 

Hairy palms

I have had a number of opponents all of the sudden just stop moving pieces and they let the clock run down (typically in losing positions) . I am fairly certain that is exactly what they are doing - playing with themselves. 

Play "against" is impossible, for some. They will get in a position and begin to "pull" for one side. Play with yourself to learn is one way to put it, and more realistic. I will set up the board in a random way, legal or not legal positions and begin from there. Lessening the tendency to pick sides. 

The best player at this is Ivan Jakinov.