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ploboo wrote: Can't I get some friggin privacy???
I like to pick one side as the side that I want to try and have win each time.
Then I play both sides, and root for myself...
while also receiving heckling from the other me at the same time. And yeah, it's not that you're hiding what you're trying to do from the other side, it's more like who's gonna bring it best with full knowledge of what the "other guy" is trying to do.
It's very selfish, playing with yourself, because you never have to put up with openings you're currently tired of, and you get to be your own chess tutor (for free!) without all the "wasted time" of playing other people who aren't even you.
True, with only one person it's tougher to get into positions that impregnate the board with learning opportunities. And our chess robot did beat the snot out of me for a minute (a day) on easy mode till I realized the sharpness in my game had gone soft and I learned to focus again on guessing the motives of someone who wasn't me. So that's the main danger of solo chess I guess. But the main benefit is that every game is of interest to you because it's the one you chose to play out and research.
there are plenty of internet sites that expect you to play with yourself.
This topic is messed up, honestly.
WHO PLAYS CHESS WITH THEMSELF,
except for Bobby Fischer.
i like playing myself and analyzing my games it helps me to improve
Jun 23, 2008
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hondoham wrote: there are plenty of internet sites that expect you to play with yourself.
This message brought to you by a man with a babys picture for an avatar...hmm
I hope youre not watching this child and those sites at the same time
astrochess wrote:
This topic is messed up, honestly.
WHO PLAYS CHESS WITH THEMSELF,
except for Bobby Fischer.
guilty
Duffer1965 wrote: Probably the only difficulty of playing with yourself here is that someone might wander in -- some profile peeker, no doubt -- and you'd be embarrassed to be caught. The problem of playing against yourself was explored by Stefan Zweig in his short story "The Royal Game": a prisoner in solitary confinement plays chess games against himself in his mind and goes mad. When you switch between sides you have to ignore the knowledge of your plans while playing the other side; you have to try to create two separate "persons" in the same mind, each unware of the other's thoughts. Generally, though, playing with others is more fun than playing with yourself.
The truth is, you can't lie to yourself. The man went crazy because he tried to achieve something impossible - lying to himself, and found that he couldn't do it. The trick is to understand that you grow! As you grow older, you learn more. The same goes with chess. Rightfully speaking, you can play a game against yourself all day long and have some of the most intense games, because you know what you were thinking, but trying to figure out a way to beat it. Every move creates some sort of imbalance. How many times have you played an opponent, made a move, and then you say, "Why did I do that?" The answer suddenly becomes obvious. The same goes with playing yourself. You set up a trap, or a zugswang, then suddenly when you see the pieces from the other side, you see something you overlooked, and you pounce on it.
...but it is great for two.