Playing against yourself?

It hasn't helped me at all.  I've never once managed to beat myself.

--Cystem

The few times I've done it I'll always take back a move that wasn't the best if I find myself favoring one side.  It makes you work hard at finding the objectively best moves or plan you can because your opponent always knows your plan and can't be fooled.

If a tactics comes up I genuinely didn't see I go ahead and play it, and sometimes it leads to interesting unbalanced endgames.

I am used to play chess on net, and I would like to find a set on line where I can play against myself, or to set a game from the book, and no luck so far. Even this site doesn have a chess set where I can move the pieces from both sides. I wonder if anyone knows a site with this feature?

When I first started it out that's all I did was play against myself and in 7.5months I was at a 756 rating almost sorta like saying if your below 1000 then doing nothing but this you'll get better by 100 pts everymonth but I must say when I reached that rating it was playing others that got me to a new frontier cause before that when I still only played myself I was stuck there for half year (another 7months) even falling to 589 at  one point.

Playing against yourself is something to do in areas with out chess players to practice against.  I do it just to look at positions, but something that could be tried is make a move and forget about it for a day, and come back to it the next.  Try to keep as much information out of your head until you look at the position again.  I'ld try it and see if it truely works ;).  It's something like when you play multiple games of correspondence

 I founded just a day after I wrote this. Thanks. :) I have two books at home, and this way will be easyer to check the lessons, than to use a real set.

I am so bad at chess that even when I play against myself, I always  lose :-(

I read sum wer, even magnus carlsen wud play chess against himself wen he was a kid. 

Well, it's a good thing he finally managed to find some opponents.

Most of the people think that we can do tactics but have to play with tactics.

Interesting, but I will make myself win with white as it goes first and is '"'better'"'

The real question is... do you start trash talking your opponent?  

I used to like doing it a lot when I was a teenager, and it certainly taught me some things - however, the problem with it is that you keep reinforcing the flaws in your play by repeating them and having no one outside of your mind to punish you for them.

It is the same as what is called "echo-chamber", in a way: you are getting boiled in your own thinking, without it being challenged from the outside, and as such it stagnates. I think it is fine to do it every now and then, but it is easy to overdo it and damage your chess understanding, to an extent.

When I play against myself I get a computer to assist each side. I like to use the "Help to Move" feature on the free Lucas Chess if I'm exploring an opening -like the Glek Vienna (1 e4 e5 2 Nc3 3 g3 4 Bg2)- I play against myself because in most of my games I'm out of the book by move 6, so I want to see where the game might take me before I use that opening.

So a GM could probably do it and be fine, a great way to maintain their play even.

To play yourself is a great exercise. Especially positional play would benefit. 
The outcome of the match is irrelevant and the moves you choose to play are less important than the moves you don't play. 
These are the main benefits IMO: The candidate moves you consider and the combinatoric calculation, plus your assessment skill.
Also constantly putting yourself in the opponent's shoes (so to speak ) is a healthy chess habit. 

Whenever I have the patience to self-play my game involves "undo"  rights. if one side regrets a move they can do so but that rewards the other side with an extra "undo" right.  

It is interesting sometimes to see how a certain mate cannot be avoided or how even the whole games's result is overturned by a single "undo".  

Good luck everyone and keep on keeping on

But if you play only against yourself, your win/loss ratio is always a constant.

hi, i am also interested in playing against myself, morely to have an idea what my way of playing chess feels like for the opponent, but i cant find on this website how i can do that, play whit, flip the bord and play black, where is that on this website?