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Subject: Re: My God is the new CM 10K Chess Server just aweful!

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:13:50 08/18/04

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On August 18, 2004 at 13:01:08, Steve B wrote:

>i cant believe it
>the only reason i even purchased the 10th Edition was to play on the new Chess
>Server UbiSoft established for the CM10K
>I cant believe how aweful the server is!
>6 players online
>i couldnt even watch a game in progress as i was "timed out" after 15 seconds
>when i issued a challenge there was mutiple calls for my CD key code
>then i got messages that my key code was already in use!
>i even downloaded the 1.01 patch (released yesterday)which was supposed to
>correct some connection problems to the server.
>made no difference at all
>
>i actually think the 10k server is worse then the gameroom UbiSoft provides for
>CM9K if you can believe that!
>
>i pine for the good old days when there was a'CHESSMASTER LIVE" server which
>eventually switched to Mplayer
>then when Ubisoft acquired the Chessmaster title and moved the online play to
>their own server(from CM 7K onward)it has been straight downhill with a
>vengeance
>wow!
>it just dosent get WORSE then this
>
>totally disgusted regards
>Steve


I take it that you can find more diversity in opponents just by going to your
chess computer closet!

The bright spot is that if you do know somebody on CM, you will be be pick them
out.  If you read this soon - look me up, I will not be hard to find.

Best.

Michael



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