I love the list of sponsors–with the exception of MonRoi, which too aggressively asserts its “ownership” of the games and makes it very difficult to download and save games in convenient, searchable format. Cutting and pasting single game pgn files from html is terrible–and it doesn’t have to be that way. MonRoi doesn’t gain anything by doing this, but they do generate a lot of ill-will among potential customers. They have a fine product but are terrible at managing it.
I guess that Chessbase, DGT and Monroi are the most important companies in chess, as Chessbase brings daily news in three languages, has Frtiz and on-line games, DGT replaced analog with digital clocks, got digital boards, and Monroi has perhaps a leading innovation for live games. All three must be doing something right, that none else has done successfully. Any other – chess only company? ICC is cool, but has 7 times less members than Chessbase, no Fritz and no news in three languages.
Quite an impressive list of sponsors. Congratulations!
I love the list of sponsors–with the exception of MonRoi, which too aggressively asserts its “ownership” of the games and makes it very difficult to download and save games in convenient, searchable format. Cutting and pasting single game pgn files from html is terrible–and it doesn’t have to be that way. MonRoi doesn’t gain anything by doing this, but they do generate a lot of ill-will among potential customers. They have a fine product but are terrible at managing it.
I like MonRoi and I think their product is very good. It’s much more convenient that DGT stuff.
Starbucks? Is coffee legal for chess players?
I guess that Chessbase, DGT and Monroi are the most important companies in chess, as Chessbase brings daily news in three languages, has Frtiz and on-line games, DGT replaced analog with digital clocks, got digital boards, and Monroi has perhaps a leading innovation for live games. All three must be doing something right, that none else has done successfully. Any other – chess only company? ICC is cool, but has 7 times less members than Chessbase, no Fritz and no news in three languages.