How I can I train with just a chessboard?

Hello, I was wondering what you can be doing to practise your chess using only a chessboard. I travel alot and sometimes do not acquire internet facilities. So what could I be doing with only a chessboard? I've seen Magnus Carlsen playing on a board by himself in this video , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fw9BVi8bdU, but I don't know if he is practising. Visualization is not a problem at all for me.

You mean just staring at a board without pieces? lol

A board with pieces. How can I train with just that?

Wow, you're just so funny.

Thanks for the trib, LegionBoy.

Don't.  Otherwise you're gonna start doing something like playing a game with yourself.  Find a book or a database or a computer or online site to play...or something.

Thanks for the feedback, Andy Clifton.

"Boards don't fight back"

Take any super-gm level game, select random move (like 25+ move) then put all the pieces on the chessboard so you have their position.. Then see who's move it is and analyze the position, think of what move you'd have played (think for like 10 minutes, not less! even more if you need to!) and then see what was played in the game. if its different than yours, try to see why. good luck, have fun =]

This advice is taken from Daniel Heisman, all credits to him.

Except then of course you're gonna need a source for the game...

so just write the moves on the paper, your makin problems out of nowhere lol, thats all i gotta say in this thread, as obvious troll is obvious

No, you're making solutions out of nowhere.

And how much you wanna bet that that isn't all you gotta say in this thread? 

Mobile phone...Magnetic chess set...Don't take the one thats inset in your coffee table!

Fischer used to set up a board and play both sides; so he was playing as 2 players, each of whom knew exactly what the other was thinking. Once you get 6 or 7 moves into a game like this it's amazingly complex looking at everything from both sides

What is wrong with playing against yourself?

There are these things known as books . . . you can read about them on the internet.

 I have tried playing by myself before and analysing complicated positions which I have encountered during previous games. So, I geuss I will just keep doing that. Thanks for the feedback everyone.  

I think this particular method really forces you to look much further than you would normally and will cause you to see much more by default also. I will compare it to using an analysis board, but with one crucial difference. If you are really trying your hardest to make sure you play the best moves for both sides, it will help you not only know what lines will win, lose and draw, but you also will know what your opponent is probably going to try, perhaps even before he does and give yourself awesome chances to crush his plans.

If you have to ask...

Considering the way Bobby ended up, maybe we shouldn't be too eager to emulate him in everything he did.