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Hand-recording matches
Posted By: Stick In Response To: Hand-recording matches (Timothy Chow)
Date: Tuesday, 29 December 2009, at 2:17 a.m.
I have recorded my own matches on a clock. The most important thing is to get down the dice roll. It's your match, you're likely to remember your play or your opponent's play or it will be one of the mass majority of backgammon plays where any random donkey would make the same play. The dice roll is the key.
After that, I use nactation. The more you use it the easier it gets. Imagine if you will the 22 in question where you didn't know the nactation symbol but you made your play OtB. Do you think there's a chance in hell you're not going to remember what you played after all that thought? The more matches I record the less I even mark down my move because I know that it was such a tough play I spent real time on it and came up with an answer or it was so dead obvious I'd make it the next 100x I saw the same problem. This assumes that you put the recorded matches in asap and not put them off for days/weeks/months. When I record I typically want to know how I played and enter them that very day so it's a non issue.
Yes, if it's your opponent's roll you'll certainly have to put something down if nactation fails you I won't tell if you go ass wild and write '22 22,7'.
You will not be in a hurry but somewhat rushed in recording moves. It's a complete waste of time to try to write in subscript imo. If you're going to do something like that why not slew it all together? Opening 21 played slotting? If you don't nactate 21$ then 21115. You can add commas or spaces if you like but you'll get used to it not being the violent mess of numbers you're seeing it as right now. You'll distinguish the first two numbers have to be the dice roll and then yada yada yada.
Stick
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