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For the 2010 CYCC, I had a frustrating time contacting Monroi, who simply refuse to answer emails. Eventually, we made a deal, and the company rep (Zeljka) who came to Windsor was very pleasant and efficient.
I didn't see the Monroi site during the event, I was too busy with other concerns, but I heard no complaints, and the games were shown on a giant screen in the parents room.
It would be interesting to hear from someone who owns a Monroi hub if they are able to get it to work consistently. The main alternative, DGT, is used in Alberta, and Quebec has a couple of boards, as Jean Hébert says.
Whether they normally would have someone on site or not at something like this ( I don't know whether they in fact do or not ), with the problems that have existed since the start, you'd think they'd by now have made sure someone was on site to do damage control! This is bad PR for their product. As someone said, for a Canadian company, you'd think they'd treat this as one of their premier events. And it is relatively a small number of boards - why the difficulty?
Bob
I have been following the games from Round 2 and 3 and 4 just fine.
There are only 14 boards and it is very simple to handle Monroi broadcast. Their technology is working fine -- sometimes (with wireless) or less-reliable internet service, there can be hiccups.
Re: CDN Closed - Monroi - Rounds 2,3 and 4 have all worked just fine!
Originally posted by Mark S. Dutton, I.A.View Post
I have been following the games from Round 2 and 3 and 4 just fine.
Were you following the games at 10:30 or 11:00 this morning when many people reported that they weren't there ? And were you following the games which were displaying illegal moves and highly creative positions ? You and I probably have a different meanings for the idea of "following the games just fine"...
Were you following the games at 10:30 or 11:00 this morning when many people reported that they weren't there ? And were you following the games which were displaying illegal moves and highly creative positions ? You and I probably have a different meanings for the idea of "following the games just fine"...
All 14 games appeared to be available in the drop-down menu.
The site recommends that you only display 2 boards at a time.
I can get 4 to load OK and they would "appear" to be functioning fine (with no apparent illegal moves or positions during the replay of the games)
I am unable to get 1 game to load and that is the Humphreys vs. Qin game -- no moves appear in that specific game -- but so far -- the rest appear to be broadcasting the games OK?
Obviously they have updated the games database and now I can find almost all of the games from Round 1 which were not broadcasted live from Friday night. But since then, generally speaking, the broadcast has been glitch free when viewing it here in BC on a Firefox browser.
I spend most of my time watching the games and not here on ChessTalk -- so I will head back to the site and watch some exciting Round 4 broadcast games.
So someone involved in the Canadian Closed 2009 tells us there were big problems with Monroi then. So what do we do this year to transmit games ? We again turn to Monroi to do the job ! As they say, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results."
Here in Quebec, thanks to Luc Forget who owns two DGT boards and operates them, many tournaments have used that technology to transmit games, without serious problems.
I'm pretty sure that quote was Einstein... one of my favourites.
We used the DGT boards in 2004 at the Ontario Open (and possibly at the 2005 Canadian Junior although I don't recall specifically). These were the older types and were a little harder to set up, but once you get them up and running they were relatively easy to work with. Plus no matter what may screw up with the move order, it will at least be showing the correct position! :)
ChessBomb is great, but even they had problems with the Kramnik - Radjabov blitz today.
What I really like about MonRoi is the fact that you can watch 4 games simultaneously ( despite the warning box that you are not supposed to watch more than 2 ).
The boards are now available on MonRoi for Rd. 6, though the moves have not yet started coming in. Hopefully shortly that will be solved - they were supposed to start at 1:00 PM EDT.
Bob
Last edited by Bob Armstrong; Monday, 9th May, 2011, 01:33 PM.
The Monroi schedule gives 2 pm as the start of today's round. The board 1 Hansen-Noritsyn game should be a battle as there had been discussion of late as to why Noritsyn was on the Olympiad team instead of Hansen. Still, this is only one game, but the thinking will be there by players and spectators alike.
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