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Subject: Chessmaster Challenged.

Author: Phil Marriott

Date: 02:24:55 05/16/03


Hi All

I wonder if I might be able to get some advice from those of you who own
Chessmaster 9000.

I decided to learn to play Chess properly after years of dusty chess pieces,
which one's the queen anyway and using boards as door stops.  So I went out and
bought CM9000. It's all 3d and everything!  oooooh see the board spin and spin
and.... oh.. I feel a bit sick now, hold on would you.

Ok I'm back, where was I?  Ah yes, advice.

Here's the thing.  I'd quite like to play online, to hone my playing skills to a
frightening edge and bask in the heady atmosphere of..erm... a place where they
play chess... but I, er, can't make it work.  It's broke init.

I've already tried emailing ubi-Soft, but with no response and so I wondered if
anyone else might have experienced a similar problem.  I suppose it might help
if I told you what the problem was right?  Ok, here goes.

In order to play CM9000 on line, you need to have "Ubi.com" installed.  I have.
It's been on my system for ages. (Ahhhh  memories of hi octane fire fights in
Rainbow Six) CM9000 starts to load Ubi.com as part of the install, which is fine
because it must need updating.  But then it stops, reporting that I already have
it on board.

Problem being that when I try to log on to play online, I get a message that the
site has detected that I DON'T have Ubi.com software on the system, would I like
to install it.  Yes I would, very much thankyou. But twenty seconds later, you
already have Ubi.com on board!!!  Eh??

As I say, I've been unable to raise a reply at UBi-Soft support so has anyone
else encountered and solved this problem?

Oh, while I've got you.  I see in the manual that ChessMaster Live allows online
play, but what about play by mail?  I don't see an option for that.  Surely this
all singing all dancing program has that option?

Many thanks for any help you might be able to offer.
All the best

Badger.



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