Thank you very much! It was processing for over a day, but when I checked this afternoon it was all synchronized. Do you want a tip? Post your Chess coin address if you do.
In case anyone else wants to do the same, first backup the wallet.dat file and then delete the database, txleveldb directories and the blk0001.dat file. Then, copy and paste the bootstrap.dat file in there and run Chesscoin
Thanks for the feedback ... have never done this and I'm glad that it works