Patent ID: 8494665

Claim:
A board game move-recording system, comprising a game board with game pieces, and a board game move-recording device and a move record analysis device associated therewith, the move recording system having: means for recording the moves of the game in which said move information is in the form of a time-ordered sequence of occupancy-change data items indicating which game board playing locations have changed state from being occupied to being unoccupied or from being unoccupied to being occupied, but in which said occupancy-change data items do not further indicate the identity of the game piece occupying each game board playing location; means for creating a primary game record; means for updating the primary game record as game pieces are moved to and from playing locations; means for creating a plurality of game records when an ambiguous move is encountered, with each of the plurality of game records based on each possible move that can represent the ambiguous move; means for eliminating game records if the subsequent moves indicate that the possible moves for such game records were not the actual moves played.