I dont think you have to write down your move for bullet chess
How do players compete in OTB tournaments write their chess moves so fast?
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Jun 6, 2022
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#3
Yeah when I started playing rapid the coaches made me write down all the moves - I kinda thought like WHATS THE POINT but as time went on I got faster and I could guess the first few moves my opponent was going to move.
#1
If you are right-handed, then play the move with your right hand, press the clock with your right hand, and then write down your move with your right hand.
8.4
If a player has less than five minutes left on his clock at some stage in a period and does not have additional time of 30 seconds or more added with each move, then for the remainder of the period he is not obliged to meet the requirements of Article 8.1.1.
https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/E012018
Jun 6, 2022
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#5
I see the move played, and I just write it down. If the time situation or surprise of the move catches my attention, I may wait a bit before doing it. It's just second nature, recognizing a move when it's played and not having to think about the notation of the move itself, if that's what you're getting at.
What if you are busy thinking about the game and don't have any time to focus on writing the moves.
Then you probably will be penalized by the arbiter.
The official rule in otb tournaments is that u don't have to write the move if either player is under 5 minutes on the clock. I'm pretty sure that's the case. Also, if u study a lot of chess books with a real board so u physically move the pieces as ur learning the lessons , the squares will become ingrained in ur mind so u won't have to look at a-h and 1-8 to know what each square is. U'll instantly know what each square is called. That'll make u faster.
Jun 7, 2022
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#9
It gets easier with practice. Algebraic notation really sped things up. I learned English Descriptive ages ago (1. P-K4 P-K4 2. N-KB3 N-QB3 3. B-B4 N-B3 4. N-N5 etc...). Then a bunch of Batsford books came out in Figurine Algebraic Notation but it took too long to draw the teeny pieces.
#6
Bronstein always kept writing not only his moves, but also the clock readings, even in severe time trouble like 20 moves in 2 minutes. He wrote down the moves drawing figurines instead of letters for the pieces.
tygxc wrote:
#6
Bronstein always kept writing not only his moves, but also the clock readings, even in severe time trouble like 20 moves in 2 minutes. He wrote down the moves drawing figurines instead of letters for the pieces.
How does he manage all that? Wouldn’t his time run out?
#11
Bronstein was an extraordinary player. He almost became World Champion.
He believed time use was the clearest indication of a player's strengths and weaknesses, hence he wrote the time taken for each move.
He believed that thinking longer allowed him to outthink his opponents, hence he usually got into severe time trouble.
He was an excellent blitz player, so he did not mind going down to 2 minutes for 20 moves.
As he was Russian, he preferred to denote pieces with figurines instead of Cyrillic letters, so as to facilitate the task of the arbiter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bronstein
#17
With 30 seconds increment you are obliged to write down the moves even if your clock is below 5 minutes.
Jun 8, 2022
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#14
tygxc wrote:
#17
With 30 seconds increment you are obliged to write down the moves even if your clock is below 5 minutes.
I had a +30 increment tournament last week, and my opponent and I both stopped taking notation when we were slipping under a minute. I suppose there was no arbiter in the room to enforce (We were the last game, and we had spectators.) but this is good to know, for the future.
If you're busy writing down moves, how do you focus on the game if it's getting intense? I've been practicing writing down chess moves at my school's chess club recently and I somehow can't focus on the game because I'm busy writing down moves. It's like driving and taking notes on where you went at red lights.
Jun 19, 2022
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Gabberl wrote:
If you're busy writing down moves, how do you focus on the game if it's getting intense? I've been practicing writing down chess moves at my school's chess club recently and I somehow can't focus on the game because I'm busy writing down moves. It's like driving and taking notes on where you went at red lights.
I do remember that was tough sometimes. You have to switch from being focused on the board to writing down the moves and then go back to the board. In tense games it was amazing how many times I wrote the wrong move down, or skipped a move and started writing blacks moves as whites etc.
It just takes practice and experience.
Jun 19, 2022
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#19
There was a player at the club that I used to frequent that developed his own notation for chess moves. If you looked at his scoresheet you wouldn't understand what was written, but he could.
I believe it is legal to do this, but I never understood why he did it. I know some players like to write the move before they play it, maybe he didn't want anyone to see what he was going to play.
Writing down moves is a lot of multitasking. My brain has to process what just happened so there is no time to write down moves and especially when I'm down on time. How do players in tournaments handle this? By the way, I'm right-handed so I will have to move the pieces with my left hand and press the clock with my left hand which feels really awkward.