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This is neat. For anyone wondering why not just record the moves on your phone: Digital devices are not allowed at over-the-board tournament games.
FIDE (and anything under FIDE rules) does certify some purpose built digital recording devices, they are hilariously expensive and hilariously crap but they exist.
* https://www.monroi.com/products/personal-chess-manager.html
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Because the scoresheet you bring home from a tournament won't be in the format this tool expects? So you'd still have to rewrite it onto the "crosswords" sheet before OCR-ing it? (In which case one extra step gets automated away thanks to the tool... but at the cost of another one taking its place). Unless I'm missing something
The idea is you'd write down the moves during the game on the Scoresheet. Ideally, if people don't think it's too big of a change, we could just have tournament directors hand them out. Otherwise, print, bring to game, scan and throw away
This is neat. For anyone wondering why not just record the moves on your phone: Digital devices are not allowed at over-the-board tournament games.
Not true* FIDE (and anything under FIDE rules) does certify some purpose built digital recording devices, they are hilariously expensive and hilariously crap but they exist. * https://www.monroi.com/products/personal-chess-manager.html
I like ChessNoteR almost as much, and it's USCF-approved. Not FIDE-approved yet, but they're working on it.
This is neat. For anyone wondering why not just record the moves on your phone: Digital devices are not allowed at over-the-board tournament games.
Not true* FIDE (and anything under FIDE rules) does certify some purpose built digital recording devices, they are hilariously expensive and hilariously crap but they exist. * https://www.monroi.com/products/personal-chess-manager.html
The USCF certification requirements are here [2]. This also includes a list of USCF certified electronic scoresheets.
[1] https://www.fide.com/FIDE/handbook/Standards_of_Chess_Equipm...
[2] https://www.uschess.org/docs/gov/reports/eScoresheets/Certif...
This is great! Sadly it does not seem to be open-source. I have wanted something like this for other data entry tasks like: tracking expenses or tracking body weight. I enjoy working with pen and paper much more than typing on a Phone or PC. Just give me a template I can print, let me write the data to it, and have it scanned. Is anyone aware of a product (perferably open-source) that lets me do that?
I think I'd be willing to make it open source? I'll talk to a person that worked with me on it.
> Do not indicate checks, mates or promotions at all, i.e. leave out the "+," "#," or "=Q". Some of your screenshots include the +, is this accurate? If you don't include the =Q you can't encode all games?
I took the screenshot with the "+" before I realized it'd be easier for now to ignore the "+". This is my fault for being lazy, I'll change it. I looked at a database of lichess games (40,000) to convince myself that non-Queen promotions were worth ignoring for the beta. If promoting to a different piece is clearly the better move, I could run a Stockfish check anytime a promotion move is made to assume the player ch…
This is definitely a real problem for some people - a chess organizer friend of mine recently spent 4-5 hours entering games from a scoresheet into the computer every night. This solution is pretty nice - but it is possible to imagine that such a solution might work directly on horribly written scoresheets, using handwriting recognition + the kind of constraints mentioned by indy7500 - that would be pretty amazing fr…
This is great! Sadly it does not seem to be open-source. I have wanted something like this for other data entry tasks like: tracking expenses or tracking body weight. I enjoy working with pen and paper much more than typing on a Phone or PC. Just give me a template I can print, let me write the data to it, and have it scanned. Is anyone aware of a product (perferably open-source) that lets me do that?
I think I'd be willing to make it open source? I'll talk to a person that worked with me on it.