affected it in a bad way? or improved it? or reduced the amount of it?
i personally feel more mentally exhausted after long chess games, so it makes my sleep more sound. now, i do find that (esp. with the online chess) i tend to stay up an hour or two later than usual, so i get a little LESS sleep.
...ryan
I've found that I can visualise my positions in current and completed games to a certain extent. I can't see the whole board like the proficient blindfold players can but I can see a pretty defective whole picture of the position by seeing small complexes of pieces and by referring to square colour or square notation when I can't remember where a piece is.
Yes this affects my sleep. I find myself taking great pleasure in looking at chess (imprecisely) during the time when I put my head down each night. This has the two extremes of effect, I either can't sleep for hours because chess is too interesting and my mind won't let it go, or the opposite effect; thinking about chess puts me to sleep very quickly.
I remember at the Kramnik / Leko match, I think it was game 1 where Kramnik had 2 rooks to White's queen. Kramnik ended up winning, but the end game lasted a long time.
Kramnik later admitted to spending half that night trying to untangle his rooks in his head.
It doesn't happen often, but when I have a particularly interesting game or position, I have been known to dream about it.
I do remember one time when I made my moves and went to sleep. My head hit the pillow and like a thunderclap, I realized I just threw a game away. I remember that being a rather restless night.
But I can't remember the moves when I wake so I don't know what the quality of these games were.
This is pretty funny. I have had similar experiences. I don't play chess in my dreams for some reason, but I always dream of the most awesome music. Then when I wake up, I can't remember it well enough to write it down. If I do remember it, the harmonies usually come out wrong, or by the time I am done writing it out, it just has 'the wrong feel.'
I was wondering if there was anybody out there whom chess had affected his/her sleep for a while, if so would you mind to comment of the issue and what helped you get out of the situation
note: just wondering, I have talked to several people who claimed that chess affected their sleep, so I wanted to know if there was more people with the same problem out there