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Mysterious Fields on Foreign Scoresheets

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 10:38 am
by Ian Thompson
Anyone know, or like to hazard at guess at, what the fields at the bottom of this scoresheet (underneath moves 20, 40 and 60) are for? You might think they're for the result of the game and the clock times, except that there are spaces for that information next to the players' names.
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I didn't see anyone filling them in on completed scoresheets.

Re: Mysterious Fields on Foreign Scoresheets

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 1:44 pm
by Nick Burrows
[40 moves in 100] [20 moves in 50] [+30 mins]

Re: Mysterious Fields on Foreign Scoresheets

Posted: Thu Sep 26, 2024 2:57 pm
by Roger Lancaster
Yes, presumably reminders re time controls - as suggested by Nick above.

Re: Mysterious Fields on Foreign Scoresheets

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:14 pm
by Francis Fields
They are not called fields but entry boxes.

Re: Mysterious Fields on Foreign Scoresheets

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:18 pm
by John Upham
Francis Fields wrote:
Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:14 pm
They are not called fields but entry boxes.
Francis, I assume you have an expertise on fields?

For which discipline is the Fields Medal awarded?

Re: Mysterious Fields on Foreign Scoresheets

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2024 7:15 pm
by Christopher Kreuzer
Dare I say: "That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England"?

Re: Mysterious Fields on Foreign Scoresheets

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2024 10:33 pm
by IM Jack Rudd
John Upham wrote:
Tue Oct 08, 2024 6:18 pm
For which discipline is the Fields Medal awarded?
Mathematics.

And just to confuse everyone, there is also the mathematical concept of a field, which is a structure with addition and multiplication defined on it, with some pretty specific rules governing both.

Re: Mysterious Fields on Foreign Scoresheets

Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2024 10:41 pm
by John Clarke
I played a Geoffrey Fields back in the 60s. One of my easier victories, definitely not worth showing here.

And our lectures on electromagnetism were once enlivened by reference to the behaviour of a couple in the field ....