The MonRoi Personal Chess Manager

writing your move first gives you the opportunity to do a last minute sanity check before playing it.

I want one so badly but it is pretty expensive. I'm hoping I can win one in a tournament. I heard it's pretty good. A lot of the top players use it.

Wouldn't that be nice? Organizers should also put DGT boards, Chessbase Megabase and Deep Rybka with Opening Books as top prizes as well instead of tall plastic trophies.

Come join the re-invigorated discussion of the Monroi on this chess.com forum.

IF IT WERE ALLOWED, you could potentially use the graphical interface of the Monroi as a 2D analysis board during a match. All you had to do was press the BACK arrow. Of course, this does not help develop one's visualualization skills for the game, so it's a double-edged sword.

During training or study, you could use it as a portable graphical analysis board or to review any game that you upload to the SD Card, but it will never have a chess engine if you needed one.

These were some of the points of discussion in the post that I mentioned earlier.

I own the device for last one year now...its a beautiful device to store all your moves and analyze them later...the best part is that you donot need to carry pocket chess sets for analysis....and quickly games can be transferred to the computer.

The only draw back is the memory....it doesnot support card higher than 512 MB.

As far as I'm aware, none of the top players use it.

They are slick to use, a friend of ours has two, one for each of his kids (one of the top girl players in the US.) And they are very nice to have. The cost I think is mainly due to the broadcasting aspect of the machine since it connects to another monroi machine via wireless to get live transmission of games. In this regard they are amazing and simpler to use for TD's than DGT

Some TD's are behind the times and think they are computers and you can analyze moves. Just show them the website and that its FIDE approved.  I believe there is a mode during tournaments where this is not allowed (and easy to verify) A handheld device like an Ipod or Android app would not be allowed due to the in ability to lock out other aspects of the phone or the possibility of cheating. This is ONLY for chess moves. I know that I would not allow an app to be used to notate games during a tournament if I was the TD and I doubt few others would as well. 

As a note this is GREAT for people with dyslexia!!!! One kid I know got one of these and his game has grown by leaps and bounds. 

The only other major drawback is if you lose it ,... GULP.

I am waiting for MonRoi to come out with a cheaper version that isnt wireless. That will hopefully drop the price down. 

Considering how small chess files are in pgn 512 MB is a lot of space. 

In USCF rules one is allowed to write down your move before or after making the move.  However, it is a violation of the rules to write down one move and then make another.  It is considered taking notes, which is not allowed.  I think it would be hard to detect a practice of making a move on the monroi and then cancelling the move to make another.  This would even be worse than those who write down the move, make a blunder check and then changing the move.  Maybe this has not happened to anyone else, but I can not tell you how many times I wanted a move back after I saw it on the board.  Another thing I do not like about the electronic recording is that it gives an advantage to the one using the electronic score sheet.  It is faster and takes less brain power compared to writing down ones moves.  OK, it does not take much time or brain power for one move.  But, over the course of a 60 move game, it adds up.  In addition, the advantages of analysis after the game are quicker, more accurate and thus provide another benefit.  So while I do not like that the electronic recording gives an unfair advantage to the user, I am tired of being the one on the opposite side of that advantage.  Therefore, I am jumping into the electronic scoresheet fray. 

You respond to a thread that is over 8 years old!

The rules only allow a person to write the one move before making it in the written score sheet.

The electronic device can only be used to input the move after it is made.

Your argument about taking less effort or brain use is, well, ridiculous.