SOMETHING STRANGE WAS HAPPENING TO ME INCHESS!

The first dream I recall playing black against J tailor. I could see the board and I was pushing my E pawn up to the sixth rank and making a move for black my opponent trying to defend against my own move. 

I moved to the E2 one before the queening square. He moved the bishop to D2 right next to the pawn covering the queening square.

That opened up his Rook to also attack the queen Square.

I moved my Knight to D1 blocking the Rook and if he took the Knight then I would take the Rook and Queen.

I needed the Queen like I need a hole in the head. I don't need that to win. It is the threat, that I can do that, is worst than actually doing it. Remember that just a dream.

The problem that is strange, awake I can see all the pieces and squares on the chess board. Without even having to try now. I can recall where all the pieces are at any given moment in the game. Even without flipping the board and putting the white pieces on the bottom.

I tried calling out where all the pieces are and it is so clear and easy to do.

Last night before going to sleep I recalled all the possible moves that I have anticipated would be done in the next four coming moves in one of the games. Including some variations that I had looked at before.

I even recalled a game with most of the pieces visible in my mind. One game was the one SCUT was playing and I even saw that he had his White Bishop on A2 aiming to F7. Just like Bobby Fischer used to do.

In my mind I saw a combination of the G Rook taking the G6 pawn because he could since the F7 pawn was frozen. I even saw the Queen doing the same thing.

It seems like I can recall most of the moves of the games I have been playing and how the mates came about. 

This has never happened to me before. I know that I have played blindfold chess before, but the clarity of the pieces and square including the color of square or the actual color of my pieces has never been so clear. They aren't white they are a little coral. The black pieces are just black.

I think it is happening because of the wait time, I have before I have to make the moves that its affecting my ability to think more clear.

Last evening I went over to a chess board in my sons living room. The area was dark except that the TV was playing and my daughter in-law said, "The light switch is near the left wall, turn it on so you can see the board."

I said, "Oh no thanks. I don't need light I can see all the pieces in my head without the light."

I just stood there for several moments and moved away. I didn't even realized then that I had said that about my newest ability.

That is the strange thing that has happened to me thanks to having to wait for my opponent to make his move.

I can see all the three games I played, the two I am playing now and the moves I am anticipating in each game.

I don't know if this is normal but it's happening to me. 

Now what to do with this.

Has this have ever happened to any of you?

Is this creepy of what?

Now imagine when you stop smoking weed, your dream intensity will double or triple!!

Hmmmm . . . . You mean you have to smoke it?

Smoke it Blindfolded?

The thing about seeing without the boards or pieces, is that I can make a move from B5 and take B2 with a Rook, but I don't have to see the Rook actually move there. I know that it is a black square it moved to.

I know it is there and a Bishop is supporting it from G7. I don't see all the other squares on the board at that moment, not until I actually focus on another of my pieces or my opponent. I don't have to account for the squares without any pieces on them until I move over them.

It not photographic. I don't know what to call it.

All of you actually do it also when you are looking at the board and are looking for a move to make. Many times during the games you say in you mind, "I move the Knight here, he goes there, I go there and he takes me, I take him back, he take the second piece. He wins the exchange. I can't do that."

And then you do it again and try something else, all in your brain, moving pieces in your mind. Before you decide which move to make.

Most players can play one game without the pieces. You can do it also. Try moving the e pawn two spaces up. E4. I think you can see the pawn on the board in your mind. Now the opponent mover E5. Without any pieces on the board, I know you can visualize both pawns facing each other. 

If you move your knight to F3. I know you can see it. Next move you move Bc4 and then you Castle King side.

That is visualizing and making moves without pieces. You do it also.

I don't have Fritz or any program. I can do it without a board or men.

I don't make it .001. I try to post it in 12.

Sometimes it works for me and sometimes it just does what it wants.

                              That is a problem!

Advlegitimate 

I wasn't making the font different sizes on purpose just to confuse you nor am I spelling wrong on purpose. My finger do that even though my brain is telling them so type correctly and I do use spell check.

It happened because I have poor eyesight and I enlarged the screen size so I can read the size 8 font. So when I responded or made post, I was forgetting that it was enlarged but when it posted it was tiny. Although it looked larger to me when I posted. I tried to make it one size larger and I ended having different size font.

It was not done deliberately.

Sorry. I imagine that most members CAN read the size 8 font. But old farts like me and older (74) might have trouble. 

I will go back to my old post and change them to smaller font.

Sorry. Have a nice day. DENVER

It's your move!

yeah man, it happens to me all the time

Yes, but they'll be less interesting.

 I am 70 and have some 50 years at this great game.At night i dream chess and during the day i play games while shopping ,getting gas. The world does its thing and i do mine.Your doing a good job that's required of us all... getting old. Have a great day ! 

lol

I dreamt I was playing a friendly game against Garry Kasparov (in a bay window in an Amsterdam apartment - it was a sunny day). He played the KID as black, we were still in the opening and I ventured d5 (but not as part of a four pawns attack because my bishop was already on d3). He looked up at me and I asked "What's the matter?". He said "Okay, black is still winning, but that is a really interesting move". I asked him why and he started laughing in that way he does, and then suddenly stopped and looked dead serious. Then it gets a bit fuzzy, and the only other thing I remember is having a weird mix of emotions - pleased and honoured that the great man was playing chess with me so informally, anxious that he or someone else would find out that I was really a total patzer, jazzed about the possibility that I had stumbled on something that wasn't just a novelty but a completely new idea in chess. Crazy, huh?!

I don't often dream about chess - more usually it's trains, elevators, parkour, insides of houses that are mine but aren't, etc.

Hi Eddy,   Hi   fburton 

Sometimes I play chess in my head now and I might play five moves of the opening or attaking middle game or the end game. If a bishop or rook is needed to complete the combination the bishop is always there far away and I just have to imaging it.

Hey Eddie. You are a prime candidate for the group I belong to. That is the Geezer chess group here on Chess.com. You have to be 60 at least and women have to be 50. This is a fun group they interact play team group chess and they actually sort of know each other. There are only about 110 members. You should check it out.

http://www.chess.com/groups/home/geezers

Thanks for reading and commenting.

Hello Extragon

I like that saying. I am going to use it all the time.

Thanks.

Hi FBurton

Tha is very descriptive and have you tried that move in your own game?

I don't know what the KID is. King's Indian Defense?

Thanks for the read and comment.

King's Indian Defence, yeah. I haven't tried that move, no - and it's relatively unfamiliar territory. I just wish I was able to comprehend what the new concept was that GK had thought he had seen in that move.

(Btw, I'm not quite old enough to join your group, but at least I'm heading in the right direction. )

FBurton

I didn't mean you should join our Geezer group. I just edited the comment so that made you younger.

Phew!