Why Pro Chess Players Write Down Their Moves...

[Croco_G]

Imagine if you had to write down the moves in a bullet match

[AntsSweden]

It’s not only pro players, in ALL fide registered tournaments with a time control of above 1:30 hours it is necessary, even I, in tournaments have to wright down the moves, and I am 1217 currently in Classical FIDE, and 1389 blitz.

[black_hole_gaming_]

In bullet : Hikaru writing all moves before even moving

[kz.productions]

It also helps when you want to analyse the game yourself afterwards

[Laptopsigmagamer]

It's also useful for analysis. Also, it is compulsory in all fide rated tournaments, not just grandmaster tourneys

[zeus]

Cheapest way? Yes. Easiest? No way. Those boards they got there are DGT boards. Unless an error occurs, the game is already being recorded and transmitted to other computers. As other commenter added, "not blitz"; certainly! It's already hard to write down all the moves in a 10 min game sometimes. Let alone blitz.

Regardless. Yes its a FIDE rule. The rest are preferences between players.

[melzz]

It also helps the players to retrace their move, to check 50 moves limit, repetition etc

[snowflora]

I kinda like having the moves written down so in an endgame I can easily check for threefold repetition without having to think

[amersulaiman]

Thank you, i always thought they write them down because it's FUN

[hi_im_zz]

imagine u have 1 second on the clock 😂😂😂

[borisfenestra]

I think it adds a lot of beauty to the competition tbh

[deezknots]

Players also discuss their moves after the match, they sit down and ask why did you do this and that, so the two players go through the game together to help improve. I played a lot of chess and had 1800 fide at 15, this improves gameplay a lot

[xwyvrmq]

Just have a birds-eye view camera looking at board that records matches for darn sake. It makes it simpler for everyone. Recordings can be checked and cheats can be easily found out.

[OrlaGraceMcNeil]

It’s not just grandmasters. All FIDE registered tournament with time control over 1:30 h require you to write down your moves

[edge]

The camera recording the game in question

[siddharthannandhakumar]

This task should be handed over to technology atleast for high tier games.

[PeterEladio]

one thing i think to keep the calmness of the player and to avoid pressure, think of it a little break between moves.

[haziqiman]

Ahh yes, the famous King facing King accident😂

[priyangshugoswami]

not just grandmasters but every official player recognized by FIDE

[queenieXbow]

As a chess player who has documented a bunch of my own games while playing them I can tell that it has something very traditional for me. It belongs to the chess game as touching every piece before making my first move