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Subject: Re: bought cm9000, feel ripped off.

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 13:44:11 08/31/02

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On August 31, 2002 at 14:02:13, Terry Ripple wrote:

>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
>------------------
>Maybe he thinks ChessMaster 9000 should have come with all the live human
>players already on the disc?
>
>Regards,
>      Terry



Sooner or later it will happen. Bioethics are changing. :)



    Christophe



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