Non-dominant hand

It is a somewhat popular training idea in some other disciplines to use your non-dominant hand to stimulate using the other side of your brain.

Writing, Drawing, Dexterity.

What if in training for Chess you sometimes restricted yourself to only using your left hand to move the pieces, get a left handed mouse, or annotate your games left handed.

There also is the notion in Chess sometimes you are the static player and sometimes you are the dynamic player such as when down material or having a bad pawn structure. Perhaps changing the hand you play with could be a mental trigger to embody the opposite play style.

My right hand is the static player and my left hand is the dynamic player. Practice lots of reckless attacking with the left handed mouse and grind down the endgames slowly with the right handed mouse.

What about those who can't afford a second hand?

But it sounds interesting...

I occasionally play online chess with both hands, but without a mouse. I click on a piece which I want to move, while keeping the other hand ready around squares where I might want to place it. Am I therefore an universal player?

@ KindFighter said in #3:

I occasionally play online chess with both hands, but without a mouse. I click on a piece which I want to move, while keeping the other hand ready around squares where I might want to place it. Am I therefore an universal player?

I personally use one mouse to both click on the piece and move it, And I'm righty.

Sounds awfully simplistic (as usual with these sorts of things).

I play on a touchscreen laptop, so I use whatever hand is closer to the piece I want to move. I guess I am a lazy-positional player on the right side of the board and a lazy-reincarnation-of-Morphy on the left side of the board.

EDIT: just played a game solely with my left hand to test your theory, and I put on this attacking masterpiece.

Don't ask why I didn't play 36... Bxf1. I just completely missed it.

On general basis, one should try to make both sides if brain and respective hands effective in case of any serious issue in future. But scientifically, it doesn't strengthen the intelligence and reports show that peope with either side being dominant are more intelligent than ones having both sides equally capable.