Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This program has many fine features but they are useless to those of us with a laptop who do not want to carry the DVD with us. Each time you load the program you must insert the DVD or it will not work. The manufacturer has every right to insert this copy protection feature but the buyer should be warned. I would not have spent the $40 for this program had I known about this limitation. I am away from home a lot and want to use the program to relax during little breaks from study and writing. If every program used this kind of copy protection we would have to carry a lot of DVDs with us and constantly search through them for the right one every time we wanted to load a program. This would be ridiculous. For those who are comfortable with this feature and have all the hardware to run it properly it is a fine value worth five stars. ADDITION: The program interferes with other programs. One of the advantages of the Mac X operating system is that you can run a bunch of programs at the same time, switching between them as needed or desired. Chessmaster 9000 has interfered with two of my programs. Even though I turn all of the sound off in Chessmaster 9000, it blocks iTunes from running. It also stops macros from running in Microsoft Word for the Mac. The program may not be suitable for users who would like to have it running or loaded while they have another program on.