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Subject: Re: Ubi.com : Online chess for CM users -- What the ????

Author: Kirk Bagwell

Date: 10:22:17 10/13/02

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On October 13, 2002 at 01:03:32, Roy Brunjes wrote:

>On October 12, 2002 at 23:58:24, Jason Waugh wrote:
>
>>On October 12, 2002 at 20:38:14, Roy Brunjes wrote:
>>
>>>I have read the FAQ that relates to using ubi.com for playing chess.  I cannot
>>>for the life of me figure how the heck to use this service.  I see users in the
>>
>>
>>I just bought CM9000 the other day and I haven't been able to play online
>>either.  Even if I could play online, there is nobody in there to play with -
>>playing online using this UBI.COM client is doubtless a huge problem for most
>>people, which is why there is nobody playing.
>
>I suspect you are right.  The service is so confusing that people must say the
>heck with it and fire up Fritz 7 or Hiarcs 8 and play on playchess.com.
>
>If UbiSoft would make a manual (not just a cheesy FAQ that doesn't answer many
>of the questions anyway), that might help.  Better yet: re-engineer the entire
>user interface (not CM9000, just the ubi.com piece) to make it much more
>intuitive.


I see the same problem, if you wait about 30 seconds when the window pops up
with the different options of connections, it will go into the room u have
selected from the ubi lobby. It is a too bad. I was hoping for an interface like
CMLIVE back in the cm5500 days.



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