Author: andrew tanner
Date: 10:17:15 05/16/03
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On May 16, 2003 at 05:24:55, Phil Marriott wrote: >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. Believe it or not chessmaster has no interest in supporting online games. The fact that they have cmlive code in the product is just a marketing gimmick. A few years ago when I bought cm5500 I expected to be able to play online via CMLIVE. To my complete surprise after I opened the package and installed the damn thing, I find out that I cannot play on a chessmaster server because there is none. The only way to play is through a 3rd party site called mplayer.com. The question then, is why do they advertise on the retail box their internet support?? This looks alot like false advertising to me but I'm sure it's all legal in the name of business to do such things to your loyal customers these days.. Anyway, I had a store credit at compUSA for about 30 dollars recently and (foolishly) decided to see if this chessmaster product had improved much in the cm8000 version. Same thing happened. I log on to mplayer.com now and find out the site no longer exists. Seems it has been aquired by another gaming com pany or changed it's name. I run a search for cm supported sites and it's sends me to an action gaming zone where 99% of the players are playing 3-d war sims. There were ONLY 2 poor chaps playing chess.
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