Playing Chess with Yourself

I was doing this the other day... I won & lost by resignation because I was down a rook and my opponent had two pawns about to queen.

Thoughts on playing chess with yourself?

So do you need to have a multiple personality disorder to do this or do you think being bipolar would be sufficient?

I thought you died in vein?

Bobby Fischer used to do this because he supposedly had no challenge from playing real opponents.

Great point, snake.

Let me try to prove it through mathematical induction:

If one person (Fischer) has gone crazy, and he played chess against himself, then we must assume that anyone who plays against himself will turn crazy. If you add another player to Fischer (F+1) on both sides of the equation, you can conclude that Fischer will drive him crazy too, balancing the equation.

Yep, he's surely lost now. 

I've tried playing against myself, it's like trying to tickle yourself.

It doesn't work.

How anyone can do it is beyond me.

I've actually done this before (just on a chessboard... no cement pieces) and I have to say that losing to yourself is really depressing.  I spent so much time trying to save my one color that I couldn't appreciate that I'd beaten the crap out of my other color.  Maybe I need a padded room too...

Don't play chess with yourself, you'll go blind

When you have Alzheimers I believe you will be able to play a one week/move corr. game

I tried to play against myself because of this topic and around move 10 I had a really strange feeling and I started to yell "leave me alone, you are better than me!!!" and I resigned with both colours

lol so me times when I'm in a club of players who are all 300 or 400 below my rating ill do a simul and if I still dont find any challege I just play my self.

It's lame.