Monroi Question

[ChessSpawn]

Any word positive or negative as to dependability of these personal recording units? I’m considering purchasing one. Thanks in advance.
Brian Lafferty

[kevin_bachler]

@ChessSpawn

Any word positive or negative as to dependability of these personal recording units? I’m considering purchasing one. Thanks in advance.
Brian Lafferty

Given the cost, I think there are better alternatives unless you are considering playing in a lot of FIDE events. However, it is also possible to purchase them used, and then to send them to a Monroi designate to clear the owner information for you.

[GeneM]

@kbachler

Given the cost, I think there are better alternatives unless you are considering playing in a lot of FIDE events.

I must be mistaken in my thought that FIDE disallows the MonRoi.

It makes cheating more plausible by its radio broadcast of moves.

It enables the player to see simultaneously multiple positions that occurred in the game.

[kevin_bachler]

@GeneM

@kbachler

Given the cost, I think there are better alternatives unless you are considering playing in a lot of FIDE events.

I must be mistaken in my thought that FIDE disallows the MonRoi.

It makes cheating more plausible by its radio broadcast of moves.

It enables the player to see simultaneously multiple positions that occurred in the game.

MonRoi was thoroughly tested by FIDE and they concluded that it doesn’t make cheating more plausible. It is used in a number of tournaments. Scoresheets of any form are to be used move after move. MonRoi was approved in 2005, and if you do a search, you can see that MonRoi is frequently used in FIDE events, with no reports of cheating due to the use of MonRoi.

The FIDE Presidential Board at its 1st quarter 2005, meeting in Tbilisi , 26-27 February 2005 reviewed FIDE’s Technical Commission report regarding the MonRoi system first deployed at the Montreal Chess Tournament. After considering the results and chess player feedback of the Category 10 GM /IM chess tournament, held in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) from January 14 to January 21, 2005, FIDE confirmed that the MonRoi patent pending system complies with chess rules and technical specifications and functions in a tournament environment as specified by FIDE.

USCF has approved four systems:

Approved devices
The following electronic scorekeeping devices meet the above requirements for an electronic scoresheet and are approved for use during USCF rated games:
MonRoi Personal Chess Manager.
uschess.org/docs/gov/reports … -cert1.pdf

DGT Projects Electronic Chessboard (current model, April 2006 or later); conditional: If the DGT chessboard is interfaced to a computer for display or transmittal purposes, that computer must be under the direct control or supervision of the event organizer or tournament director.

eNotate by North American Chess Association
uschess.org/docs/gov/reports … -cert1.pdf

Plycount LLC, Plycounter® plycount.com

uschess.org/docs/gov/reports … elines.pdf

[jwiewel]

@GeneM

@kbachler

Given the cost, I think there are better alternatives unless you are considering playing in a lot of FIDE events.

I must be mistaken in my thought that FIDE disallows the MonRoi.

It makes cheating more plausible by its radio broadcast of moves.

It enables the player to see simultaneously multiple positions that occurred in the game.

The Monroi has a scoresheet mode that looks just like a normal paper scoresheet. That allows a player to check on previous moves (for things like a fifty move claim or three-fold repetition) without actually seeing previous positions.