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Subject: Re: bought cm9000, feel ripped off.

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 11:02:13 08/31/02

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On August 31, 2002 at 13:55:45, John Merlino wrote:

>On August 31, 2002 at 13:47:58, Kirk Bagwell wrote:
>
>>bought cm9000 mostly cause john said it would have it's on server.
>>
>>my system is a new dell 2 gig with all the goodies.
>>
>>when internet play is selected, it takes you to ubi.com for sign up.
>>
>>after sign up you have a selection of many of ubi's games to play.
>>
>>when i selected cm9000. two things happened.
>>
>>0 players there.
>
>Give it time. You are probably one of the very first people to go there, and
>everybody who is going there very early is seeing a few to no players and
>leaving quickly. The same thing happened with ChessmasterLive many years ago,
>and after a few weeks there were several hundred people there 24 hours a day.
>
>>can not play because need a version of activex to play.
>
>I assume you mean DirectX? If so, then yes, DirectX 8.1 is required by the
>program for both True3D boards and pieces and for Internet Play. It is an
>installation option and you probably elected to not install it.
>
>jm
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Maybe he thinks ChessMaster 9000 should have come with all the live human
players already on the disc?

Regards,
      Terry



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