How do you bluff in chess

I yell stuff like ' holy crap, that guy is on fire' ,while pointing to some point behind my opponent ( people love fire) and then I quickly replace some of my captured pieces, it is imperative that you also grab your opponents notations and swallow them .Make sure that you made your notations in such a way as to justify the new situation in case the guy queries the fact that your queen returned . Practice swallowing paper of various sizes quickly prior to the tourney or this trick can back fire badly. A more simple method is probably to throw a fake jab followed by a hard right hook, it catches most people off guard.Nobody expects violence at a chess game and eye witnesses tend to block out what they saw because it seems so unlikely. A stunned opponent often finds it difficult to concentrate properly. There is also pepperspray and tazers.

Then there's this 'oldie' quote..{actually, a reconstructed 'wordier' paraphrase}; In lieu of Not being currently able to locate it. - As it was; It was once utterred by 'V. Smyslov' or someone of his generation.

"Part of my strrategic approach to chess; Is to play the 'slower'-paced; More positional types of openings, and middlegames. Where I will, at some middlegame point-in-the-game; Maneuver, my pieces; Into what, to-all-intents-and-purposes; Looks like, I'm about to complete the preparations, for an invasive attack, of my opponent's side-of-the-board; Only to then re-arrange my 'knights'..'bishops'.. and even 'Rooks'.. in the next phase; In the hopes my opponent, will by then, have wearied himself; In the 2nd or 3rd hour" {of play}.  0:

Heh. It's always been said that Alekhine's combos culminated at the end, rather than being obvious in the beginning where most people could anticipate it's potency.

That could be what prompted his peers to say he "bluffed" a lot.

It is an Art to be sure. I believe it's akin to a magician's "I have nothing up my sleeve." Then, kaboom!

I don't know how to do it either. I always expect my opponent to know what I'm up to. OTB & online.

In faster time controls, yeah it's probable you can get away with such a tactic. OTB I think my face contorted to many hurt or excited expressions that it's conceivable that they think I'm being deceptive. That they are the ones over thinking and second guessing their moves.

Dunno. Maybe I'm unconsciously "bluffing" but man.

I suck at poker, dude. Heh.

hmmm i am not entirely convinced that these various nefarious subterfuges actually constitute a bluff.  Yes they mess with the opponent psychologically but a true bluff must be expressed on the chess board rather than off it.  

I suspect traps are the crudest form of a bluff for one gives the impression that a mistake has been made and if ones opponent attempts to capitalise on it he is doomed.

Another type is a so called provocative move or strategy enticing ones opponent to come and get you! while all the time you are planning a counter attack.  This is the military equivalent of a feigned retreat (Battle of Hastings 1066) see below

Indeed. Swindles undoubtedly cannot be pulled off without some set up during time on. Or specifically, if you have the upper hand. The initiative. If a "bluff" by your definition, means he was feinting a kingside attack but really just wanted to break up your queen side pawn chain, then obviously your opponent had many advantages in the position (time, space, mobility).

Actually it was black who was 'bluffing', in the sense that he played a provocative variation knowing that Naiditsch being an aggressive player (like Shirov who championed the variation previously) would come after him with the move g4, which if you look at the game allowed black to retreat and form a counter attack.  This is a concrete example and relies on a concrete variation not primarily on some generic values.