"Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)" wrote in message
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On Feb 16, 12:46 am, "Wlodzimierz Holsztynski (Wlod)"
wrote:

The high level tournaments
should use chess sets which record the moves
by themselves, without players wasting
their time and concentration to write the moves
down on the scoresheets.

The same goes for punching ther clock.
There should be no more of it. The chess
set, including the chess clock, should
record time by itself.

I agree for top level players with everthing Wlod wrote before this about
the need to record moves. The trouble with this last one is for a sensory
board to establish when a move is complete?

How does it tell if Qd2-d4 is a 'hover' and if the piece is actually
released onto d4, or held there while thinking of what happens, or
eventually moved to d3?

And one should not
have to claim winning on time. A player
who has exceeded his/her time limit should
lose automatically (except when no checkmate
is possible).

I agree with that.

In short, chess players should just play chess.
Everything else is at the best the necessary eveil
which should be reduced to bare minimum, as much
as possible.

I don't know if Wlod likes this idea also, but the software associated with
the board can also /BLEEP!/ illegal moves - so that it either does not allow
an illegal move to stand as amove.

One other great advantage of allowing softare/hardware to record the game is
not just clarity of moves played, but also how many moves have been played.
A scrawled score sheet, or one with dashes to indicate a move, may not
accurately record if the time limit is reached or surpaseed, without
subsequent analysis and reconstruction of the game - which can be
contentious, no?

Wlod