Remis Aman once suggested that someone stood behind interesting games and recorded it. This is especially useful for interesting games that are not recorded for various reasons such as rapid games or in time trouble. Not as silly as it sounds as I’ve seen this done in Philippines where there so many assistant arbiters that they just take a clipboard and record the top boards and bring the recorded partial games to those entering the PGNs. It’s certainly helps and makes it possible for them to post the round’s PGN game almost immediately after the last game ends.
For Malaysian rapid games, it is quite hard to see the top board games online. Also, not many people have the patience or dexterity to watch and record live games while it is played. Here’s one solution using tech:-
I saw this in Lelong and it’s a Wireless camera together with a receiver. The price is only RM 145 and I think hanging it above on the ceiling or somewhere nearby to record the top 2 boards would be really interesting.
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What do you think? It certainly makes an interesting break from the usual picture + results reports.
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aqie : 12 January 2009 at 8:47 pm
its quite interesting but i think better use the dgt board like international level do for recording moves. its frustrating if we put digital camera then it is block by other spectator’s head/body at the venue.
with dgt board, all games are immediately recorded in PGN format and then we can keep it in chessbase.
maybe the use of camera is to see our favorite’s player faces playing ‘live’… that what i think
GiLoCatur : 13 January 2009 at 11:22 am
to be able to do that we need many non-playing chess volunteers esp the chess bloggers because they are basically IT masters.
i love the above setup. but spectators need to be disciplined first. or maybe the organizer need to be more strict.
Anyway, the key pusher – “CHESS BLOGGERS UNITED!”, anyone to initiate the move??
Remis Aman : 14 January 2009 at 7:36 pm
Agreed to that Pinoy idea to ease the bulletin guys’ job…it’s good to have a digital camera nearby to record interesting games during the time scramble or blitz…but you have to be a very tall person to move it around the spectators, if there’s any blocking your way :-p
A good hand-held video cam is better so we can view it at difficult angles…
GilaChess : 15 January 2009 at 4:51 am
The camera is portable and light making it possible to place it right above the players’ boards (on the ceiling perhaps) . At least two boards should be visible enough to allow move reconstruction based on the recorded video.
Jonas Martinsson : 15 January 2009 at 3:35 pm
I had serious thoughts of building software for automatic PGN recording of games using a webcam, in order to make a cheap alternative to the expensive DGT boards.
Unfortunately, I came to the conclusion that it is not practical with today’s state-of-the-art object tracking algorithms to implement it, due to the huge amounts of RAM that would be required. Maybe in a couple of years we will see better algorithms and hardware to allow for this.
Malaysian : 16 January 2009 at 11:06 am
It’s an impossible dream because I read even the digitized boards used in the Olympiad did not fully record all the moves correctly.