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Currently tied at 4-4 after eight games, all draws. Only four "classical chess" games left in the match.

 

Fountain pens are not recommended for keeping score of a chess game, if you're a participant.

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Very interesting. I remember when I was a kid, watching play by play coverage of the Bobby Fischer vs. Boris Spassky matches (I think on PBS) and trying to follow along on a board in my living room.

Of course now I'm curious as to what the Dupont chess pens look like (I don't dare ask what they would cost...).

Mind you, I'm a fairly bad player, myself....

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Currently tied at 4-4 after eight games, all draws. Only four "classical chess" games left in the match.

 

Fountain pens are not recommended for keeping score of a chess game, if you're a participant.

 

And now 5-5, with only two games left at regular tournament time control. I really don't like these short matches with the possibility of rapid and blitz playoffs. But it would be hard these days to find sponsorship for the longer format of past matches, at least so I imagine.

 

I started playing in tournaments again last year after a very long layoff. I use a mechanical pencil to keep score. After the game, I copy it neatly into a notebook with a fountain pen.

"So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do."

 

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And now 5-5, with only two games left at regular tournament time control. I really don't like these short matches with the possibility of rapid and blitz playoffs. But it would be hard these days to find sponsorship for the longer format of past matches, at least so I imagine.

 

I started playing in tournaments again last year after a very long layoff. I use a mechanical pencil to keep score. After the game, I copy it neatly into a notebook with a fountain pen.

 

And eventually they drew all 12 "classical chess" games and then Carlsen won all three rapid games to win the World Championship. Yeah, not exactly convincing.

 

I haven't played in a tournament in over 40 years at this point. I settled on pencils as the things to use back when I was playing, however. They don't dry out, start instantly and will make good carbon, or other pressure driven, copies. I used wood case pencils. I figured that some cretin might steal a mechanical pencil, and that would be a big distraction during a game.

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Ruth there is used Duponts.............I'd been all set to get one cheap in a live auction, in there were no dealers there interested in pens....scarfed up a bunch................when the woman sitting right next to me goes bananas on the Dupont I wanted....so it cost me E90 and not the E20 I'd hoped for. Her Hubbie wanted it.

 

The counterfeits are very well made, so take care. The Vertigo is a well known one.

 

Old folks are dying off and it don't look like a cell phone so is sold cheap by the grand kids.

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