One evening our bottom team needed a substitute for its bottom board so, at very short notice, we turned to the newcomer. With very few minutes to go, we satisfied ourselves that he was familiar with match conditions such as clock use. All seemed well.
But then, just as we were distributing a scoresheet to each player, he commented, "Oh, I shan't be bothering with that - my game will hardly be worth preserving."
Quickly, for the games were about to start, we pointed out that writing your moves down was a strict requirement of the league, and that anyway it wouldn't be fair if only one of the players was recording.
He understood and fully appreciated this. It goes without saying that fielding an unprepared or insufficiently experienced player is the fault of the Club or Team Captain, certainly not the player.
The game went ahead. Both sides enjoyed the see-saw battle but eventually our player lost. Here's his scoresheet:
We told him to write his moves down, so that's what he did!
Is it actually one players moves, or both on the one column?
