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Subject: Re: bought cm9000, feel ripped off.

Author: Marc van Hal

Date: 02:59:38 09/01/02

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On August 31, 2002 at 16:44:11, Christophe Theron wrote:

>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

Hehe yes manny times you indeed find the human players on disc.
I am much more intrested in the Program it self anyways
one or the other sever doesn't difer to much
besides the interface ofcourse.

Marc



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