What do you think about hypnosis in chess ??

I just saw this video by Tal where he talks about hypnosis , what do you think ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gByOMGxtmes

Interesting topic and Tal's reply, I too very often think I am under hypnosis against certain opponents with whom I regularly lose.

@pensierimarcoaurelio said in #1:
> I just saw this video by Tal where he talks about hypnosis , what do you think ?

What if you lost simply because your opponent played better ?

Maybe he just hypnotized you into thinking that!

Or hypnotized you to make you think, that the idea that you are thinking this may be coming from a hypnosis, so a multi-level hypnosis , such as the dream within the dream ad inseption.A Matryoshka effect.

Tal was a chain smoking morphine addict. No wonder he thought the strangest things!

www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/hypnosis/about/pac-20394405
> Hypnosis is a changed state of awareness and increased relaxation that allows for improved focus and concentration.

Sounds like a desirable thing in chess, not a method of weakening one's opponent.

So Tal responds to the query with a reasonable debunking of the idea (if the translation is more or less correct). By the way, the questioner certainly is not Albert Einstein, as the 'Chessbulls' title suggests!

Tal's opponents sometimes claimed they lost to him because he hypnotized them. i think it was Pal Benko that first came up with the idea of wearing giant sunglasses when playing Tal. spoiler alert, it did not work.

@pensierimarcoaurelio said in #1:
> I just saw this video by Tal where he talks about hypnosis , what do you think ?

I play 5 minute games and lots of my blunders are caused by myself especially during fast exchanges when I will play a move on the line I calculated, but I don't notice my opponent has gone off that line ... this might actually be a form of self-hypnosis.

Interesting topic ...