MilenPetrov wrote on 05/28/09 at 20:50:20:


The chess servers at ICCF and IECG make correspondence games much better to play.

1) when a tournament starts all your games are automatically set up. There is no more setting up manual systems or email addresses. 

2) there are no more problems of mail going astray or confusion with emails.

3) there are no more problems with getting the position wrong.

4) there are no more problems with time recording 

5) the results of games are automatically recorded and games are stored on a central database which can be downloaded

6) I suspect that the jobs of tournament administrators are much easier.

Chess is a struggle between two persons. And in addition to pure OTB factors there are also outside the board factors like clock management, scoresheets, behaviour, etc.
So I think that we should keep these factors in the game. Otherwise we will not have a great games with some time troubles, emotional and political problems etc.
But in corr ches i would prefer the server to do this for me (here this is pure technical works) . But as u know cor chess and OTB chess has almost nthing in common. So there are another rules.
So if we keep to a minimum the electronic in OTB chess we will be more happy with the game.
OK, let's the oard records all the moves - after the game u will be ab;e to check the records of both players (whish is of help to chess arbiters).

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I prefer to look into the eyes of my opponent and resign/accept draw with shaking hands.

If chess endures, I predict that the future will see sensitive boards, and connected clocks, that will signal the moves and times to a wireless game recorder.  Players will not be required to keep score, since the central recorder will keep it for them.  There will also be no need to push the clock, which will switch over as soon as the move is played.  An illegal move on any board of the event will immediately and automatically be called to the attention of TD.  Players won't even have to announce mate or stalemate, since the appearance of either condition on the board instantly determines a game of chess, and the game recorder will know about it.  Likewise time forfeits. And there will be no need to argue which came first, the move or the fall of the flag.

Want to resign or offer a draw?  Push the appropriate pad on your board (or perhaps, on your clock).  To accept a draw, of course, you push the "accept draw" pad. 

The game results thus obtained will feed directly into the pairings algorithm, so that in Swiss events, there will be no pairings delays while results are entered.

I searched the forums for a topic on Monroi, but found nothing, so I'm posting here.  I'd never spend the bucks for this thing when a good 'ole pad and pen will do (but people can spend their hard-earned money any way they want to), but I'm wondering if anyone thinks it gives any sort of advantage to the user who can, for at least a few seconds, view a smaller, two-dimensional board when inputting the moves.  I know that I often see spatial relationships better on a smaller board (especially long horizontal or diagonal moves) that don't standout quite as apparently on a 3-D tournament size board, but I use the computer for much of my training. Does anyone think it might be helpful to have the "additional" board?  Also, I'm not quite sure of what the rules are (USCF or FIDE) with regard to how much time the user can spend looking at the Monroi screen, does anyone know?