First time OTB, notation errors

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NotThePainter

Played my first OTB game yesterday with a friend, not tournament. Oh man, is that hard.

Halfway through we gave up on the clock (15/10 game) because we both kept on forgetting. I wrote down the moves, I  thought I knew notation. Guess I don't! I remembered my 2nd and 3rd moves, notation was wrong. I don't remember my fourth move, the notation gives an impossible position.

I guess I can go over past games on chess.com, watching the moves but not looking at the notation, and writing down what I think the notation is. Are there any other tips?

Martin_Stahl
NotThePainter wrote:

Played my first OTB game yesterday with a friend, not tournament. Oh man, is that hard.

Halfway through we gave up on the clock (15/10 game) because we both kept on forgetting. I wrote down the moves, I thought I knew notation. Guess I don't! I remembered my 2nd and 3rd moves, notation was wrong. I don't remember my fourth move, the notation gives an impossible position.

I guess I can go over past games on chess.com, watching the moves but not looking at the notation, and writing down what I think the notation is. Are there any other tips?

Just keep doing it.

That said, I still make move errors on notation, though I can usually figure out the problems when looking over the score sheets later

AtaChess68
I have played 16 OTB games now and I think I forgot my clock at least once in every game and not one perfect scoresheet :-).
Habanababananero

Same thing.

I have not managed to keep a perfect score too many times. And sometimes I forget the clock...

What I do to make my notation better is solve puzzles from books, writing down the answers on paper. Then, when I check the answers, I will see if I made mistakes.

One game that really had me confused was a simultaneous against an international master, where I played black, but the table was set up so that the black pieces were on the white side of the board. This was due to the simul being in a park and my table was a stone table, while the other tables were plastic ones, so my table could not be turned. This meant that I had to ignore the algebraic markings on the table and figure it out from the black perspective... Managed most of the way through the game to keep it accurate so I am happy with that.

Also managed to have a slight advantage until move 26 or something, but of course I finally made a mistake and lost the game in the end...

AtaChess68
That is funny, I had the same thing last Monday: the board upside down. It confused me big time.

Around move 10 my opponent noticed me struggling, took all the pieces off, turned the board and put all pieces back on again.