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Subject: Re: CM 8000 Live, Can you still play Live internet chess like CM 6000?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 12:39:43 11/21/00

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On November 19, 2000 at 15:55:39, Terry Ripple wrote:

>I'am a little confused about playing live chess on internet with ChessMaster
>8000. It appears to me that the only way you can play another opponent on the
>internet is that you need to know the opponent's IP address but my question is
>there a site for playing opponents like they had it set up for CM 6000?
>
>This setup they are using appears to me that the only way you are going to play
>chess on the internet within CM8000 is to have a friend who also has CM 8000 and
>then to exchange your IP address so you can play each other!
>
>This allows playing only people who you know, and then you can get their IP
>address to play. The other way is modem to modem by dialing their Phone No.
>which is really nice, but again doesn't allow unknown opponents to play each
>other.
>
>And then there is Lan play!
>
>Does anyone know anything about this ChessMaster Live feature?
>
>Regards,Terry

The "Chessmaster Live" presence that was available on MPlayer with CM6000 and
CM7000 was pulled for CM8000. Therefore, the only way to play online with CM8000
is via TCP/IP, LAN or modem. There is no way to play an "unknown opponent"
anymore, because MPlayer was so disappointing to just about everybody who tried
to connect there.

Hopefully, the original version of Chessmaster Live (the one where we owned the
servers and were in control of everything) will be back up for the NEXT version
of Chessmaster next year.

jm



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