Scoresheet.....how?

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jboneswi

A lot of score sheets include a diagram of the board. What the heck do you do with that? I'm curious how everyone uses it.

 

Danke!

jboneswi

Thanks! I was just wondering if on the diagrams provided if people drew specific positions onto the board and if so which? The end? A big decision point that you'll review later? Stuff like that maybe. 

 

Eyechess

The reason for the diagram is if the game is adjourned.  Then the position can be written or drawn on the board.

Otherwise the rules are quite strict that nothing other than the game score can be written.  Specifically nothing can be written that is an aid to memory.

jboneswi

Ah-hah! Thank you! That makes an awful lot of sense. I suppose, given the small amount of space- people would just write "p" for pawn, "R" for rook and so on then?

Eyechess
jboneswi wrote:

Ah-hah! Thank you! That makes an awful lot of sense. I suppose, given the small amount of space- people would just write "p" for pawn, "R" for rook and so on then?

Yes, and you would circle the black pieces.

ActuallySleepy
I wait until the game is over and put the final position using the “p” for pawn method mentioned above. They have the same thing on the USCF chess postcards and no one ever puts anything there.