At the DC Congress, one of my opponents set his laptop next to the board and tilted the screen downwards a bit so that the camera mounted above the screen recorded the whole game. It probably took a little more work afterwards to construct the game, but it did not interfere at all.

As I recall, he beat me.

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When I used to play in tournaments, during the time Bill mentions, I also made a point of writing my move in the record before I played it. I, too, have no complaints and, in fact, I recall catching a number of mistakes before actually playing the moves

this is also a reason why writing your move before playing it is a little bit controversial - because you visualize the move for yourself but can still change it as you wish, so in strict interpretation, it is against tournament rules (at least as i remember them for Europe and specifically Czechia, and i could be wrong). in comparison this practice is not problematic for chess players because the algebraic notation doesn't really give you anything significant about the move

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I might be wrong, but probably not.

I've just got back from a weekend of tournaments and am now going to record my games from memory. I've never recorded during a game, other than occasionally take a photo with my phone. In fact at the EGC when I got some kifu to show my game to a pro sitting next to me in a lecture I just put red and black circles without numbers and didn't remember that's not how you are supposed to do it until she pointed it out!

I agree with Laman, recording before playing seems a bit wrong to me. It's like getting another board and playing out the game in parallel on it, playing your potential move, looking and reflecting on it, and then changing your mind possibly. I'd call that cheating. Then again when someone I know says he doesn't think the Euro Teams games should be rated as they are online and you can cheat by playing out a ladder with a mouse I tell him I don't think that's a big deal, and online you can see you potential move as a ghostly superposition on the board, so I'm being rather inconsistent (or at least applying different standard to online and real-life play)...

I recorded 4 of 5 games in the tournament I went to this weekend(I think it was the same as RBerenguel) on my Android phone, and I don't regret it. I used to do it on paper, and it was much more distracting than it is now. I don't think I lose that much time on it, since I was generally playing faster than my opponents.

I usually can remember only part of the game afterwards, mostly because of tenukis. I (and my opponents) are generally not sure to which area we tenuki'd first. Having the game record solves those issues.

P.S. - A word of thanks to mdobbins, AnDGS is a great program for recording!

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