The view from the other side

Here on chess.com we're blessed with a wonderful feature - we have the ability to pick up our laptops and turn them the other way up - enabling us to see what the board looks like from our opponents' point of view.

But what I'd like to know is what strategies people use when playing real life chess to see the board as the foe sees it. Personally, I am a great fan of getting up from my seat and strolling round the other side of the table and peering over the shoulder of the one opposite, while muttering to myself under my garlic-laden breath about the possibilities of the imminent collapse of their pawn structure.

I've often thought about the idea of building a rotating table to play on, but I fear this may have terrible consequences if spun too fast...

So, if any has any suggestions to this thorniest of questions, I'd love to hear them! 

That is a great feature. It is amazing that rotating the board can be so helpful; you see tactical ideas in a different way somehow. Personally, I couldn't be without the Analysis Board.

i'ver never even thought of looking at the board from my opponent's POV.  cool idea.

I find it easier to guess what my opponent's plan will be while still looking at it from my side. For some reason, when I look from the actual other side, it looks like a completely new game, and it doesn't really help me.

I am with you on this, and I feel that needing to be able to rotate the board to understand my opponents perspective could just as easily become a similar crutch. 

please tell me you're having a laugh and that you don't physically turn the laptop around as opposed to going to the analysis board and clicking the radio button to flip the board :-)

I do this occasionally, and OTB I sometimes go over to the opponent's side and look at the position, but very rarely and only if he/she isn't actually sitting there as otherwise it would be distracting for them.  I hate people looking over my shoulder...

This is particularly bad form if you're playing cards.... 

Grobe, that explains why I got thrown out of Bellagio...

I use a medium to get the view from the other side.

She's not very good though but not entirely piss-poor I would say she was a medium medium.

I didn't know that someone has actually managed to come back from the other side....was it Houdini ?

Nope - Jack Bauer

Im having problems because my screen automaticly does this and it catches me off guard. Yes, i can change it back but when i move a piece it goes back

Can you just realize how much old is this thread?

What does your screen automatically do?

Kudos on resurrecting a 13 year old thread.

or not i guess.

If you describe in detail what your screen is doing maybe someone will help you. You bumped a 13 year old thread and didn't make it clear (at least to me) what your problem is.

Maybe start a new thread and mention your problem in the thread title.