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franklin said:
Didn't think of it that way, but now that I have that might make you a better player.

Back in the day before I drank and was a bawse playing online poker I sometimes put up a sticky note over my cards and played completely in the dark solely for the different perspective it brought. Chess and poker are different games but being able to see both perspectives is pretty much the same.
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True. Bobby Fischer was known for playing games against himself in study from differing perspectives, including reversing the board entirely and from the sides instead of exclusively from black or white perspective. But he was also known for being able to accurately produce a board setup from just reviewing more than 25 moves of simple algebraic notation. I remember reading an article about him in which the author related a story about a time when Bobby was engrossed in a book or conversation or something and at the same time played a game against another player in his chess club never once looking at the board and he still called the mate in like 6 or 8 moves at the end. I guess I don't see the board the way he did.
 
babe said:
1. e4 d6
2. d4 e6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3 Nc6
5. Be2 h6
6.a3 a6

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Lol, let me allow the symmetrical play to continue, h3.

1. e4 d6
2. d4 e6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3 Nc6
5. Be2 h6
6. a3 a6
7. h3

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LogGrad98 said:
True. Bobby Fischer was known for playing games against himself in study from differing perspectives, including reversing the board entirely and from the sides instead of exclusively from black or white perspective. But he was also known for being able to accurately produce a board setup from just reviewing more than 25 moves of simple algebraic notation. I remember reading an article about him in which the author related a story about a time when Bobby was engrossed in a book or conversation or something and at the same time played a game against another player in his chess club never once looking at the board and he still called the mate in like 6 or 8 moves at the end. I guess I don't see the board the way he did.
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This is something like the idiot/savant phenomenon. . . . amazing what the human brain can do if not "hampered" by trying to process a hundred things at a time. Someone who can read a book and play chess is not going to be dealing with more than five things at once. Reading a book usually won't interfere with say a casual conversation with someone you know well, but when the brain is physically altered and is impaired in some ways, it is often observed that some other unaffected areas develop in an extraordinary way. We can choose to narrow our focus and achieve some extraordinary things just as well.
 
babe said:
1. e4 d6
2. d4 e6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3 Nc6
5. Be2 h6
6. a3 a6
7. h3 Be7

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Can it get more symmetrical than this? I bet it can! We both are in castling position. And I'm not gonna delay it anymore. 0-0

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1. e4 d6
2. d4 e6
3. Nc3 Nf6
4. Nf3 Nc6
5. Be2 h6
6. a3 a6
7. h3 Be7
8. 0-0
 
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1. Nf3 d5
2. d4 Nc6
3. Nc3 e5
4. dxe5 Nxe5
5. Nxe5 Qd6
6. Bf4 Qc5
7. Nxd5 Be6
8. c4 O-O-O
9. e4
 
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