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Subject: Re: Chessmaster 9000 goes gold

Author: John Merlino

Date: 14:00:00 07/30/02

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On July 30, 2002 at 16:58:37, John Merlino wrote:

>On July 30, 2002 at 16:56:47, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On July 30, 2002 at 16:37:40, John Merlino wrote:
>>
>>>Chessmaster 9000 has been approved by all testers and is cleared for production.
>>>The date that the product is supposed to be shipped to retailers is August 27th,
>>>so it should be available for sale by the first week of September.
>>
>>Great! I suggest sending a few truckloads of the US retail version also to
>>Europe immediatly, to be sold here (earlier). I wouldn't mind not having a
>>german box & manual, for example. - Except if it's planned to translate the
>>program itself too, this time (?). But I would prefer to see it in the shops
>>earlier, rather than to wait for translations.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Mike Scheidl
>
>There WERE plans to completely translate the program to German, but sadly they
>have been postponed. However, a complete French translation is in the works and
>will likely be available around the beginning of the year.
>
>jm

Sorry, I should have also mentioned that, at least, it is very likely that a
German "box and docs" will be made available at some point, but I have no idea
when. I hope to find out more information about when the program will be
available outside North America, and post that some time next week.

jm



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