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Hand-recording matches

Posted By: Matt Cohn-Geier
Date: Wednesday, 30 December 2009, at 12:21 a.m.

In Response To: Hand-recording matches (Matt Ryder)

b.) I think we're on the brink of a digital revolution where hand transcriptions will rapidly become a quaint relic of a bygone era. Even the cheapest digital camera these days comes with advanced technology that's able to locate a person's smile.

Inputting a match from video takes a long time, about as long as it took to play the match. I have a lot of matches videotaped. It's less than trivial for me to enter all of those into GNU (I eventually just stopped videorecording my matches).

Hiring someone to hand record and/or enter the match for you is OK for one match but not always feasible and would cost a lot of money in the long run if you did it every time you played a match. Digital recognition software would be great but none exists at the moment. And it also isn't always the least costly option.

c.) Hand-recording your own matches is enormously distracting. I've attempted it in the past and my game has suffered. It's a nice idea in theory, but over the board I find this a huge impediment to my focus, especially if I need to do hard mental work like adjusted pip counts, match equity evaluations etc. With the added time pressure of the clock, transcription must be exceptionally stressful. No doubt self-transcription is possible if you're a prodigy like Stick, but I cannot recommend it for a newcomer to the tournament scene.

I wouldn't call it enormously distracting or exceptionally stressful. In my experience it is just another thing you do. However I always want to play my absolute best and like to be completely focused on what's happening on the board (pip counts, adjusted pip counts, take points, upcoming rolls, psychology, etc.). So I don't really like hand recording my own matches as I feel like it takes some of my focus off the match.

Also, calling Stick a "prodigy" or even "idiot savant" seems strong. How about "piscine"?

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