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Great product but lousy online play

I'll start by saying I'm running XP on my machine, with a GeForce 4 64MB video card.
Now, having said that - this is the program to get. I've had a few others, but none of them could touch CM. The last version I had was 5000, and the only reason I even upgraded was because it couldn't run on an XP machine. The tutorials are tight, and I really liked the different levels of opponents. Haven't had the opportunity to play the monkey yet, but just for laughs, I'll be looking to. On the other side of the coin, from what I've read, there are some opponents that beat some of the best players in the world.

Note to the gamer from SF who complained that this doesn't run on Win2000 - Win 2000 is not a gaming platform, it's used for businesses, and it runs on entirely different code from the Win9x platform. You'll run into the same problem with Win NT 4.0. XP is the beginning of the bridge between these two platforms, however.

I'm a mid-beginner when it comes to chess (unrated), but am also a student of the game, and look forward to many hours of playing with this game!