Excalibur 915-W User Manual

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4.1 Viewing your ratingPress the RATING key to viewyour current rating. But under-stand that your rating won’tchange until you “submit”games to the Ro

It’s useful to focus on fourchess moves—capturing, cast-ling, promoting pawns, and enpassant—to make sure youunderstand how to operate yourKing Arthu

remove the captured pawn. Youmust press down on the capturedpawn before removing it fromthe board.23ENGLISHand you have to move the kingfirst.Whether

8.1 Piece Training PositionsYou can practice in eight dif-ferent training positions. Thereare five special mini-games andthree mating-practice positio

lem you’d like to solve.Problems 1-31 are mate-in-twoproblems, which means Whitecan force mate in two moves.There may or may not be otherways to win,

7. Four Knights8. Petroff Defense9. Vienna Game10. Sicilian, Classical Defense11. Sicilian,Accelerated Dragon12. Sicilian, Rossolimo Attack13. Sicilia

tions, and dates of the greatgames are given below, alongwith a brief explanation of eachgame by popular chess writer AlLawrence. (All game explana-ti

"unemployed" queen and rook on a8 and b8!12. J. Banas vs. P. Lukacs, Trnava, 1986In a Four Knights' Game, Black gets his kinginto safet

9.3 Adding a piece orchanging the type of apieceTo add or change a piece,press SETUP, then press the keythat indicates the type of pieceyou want to pl

10.1 The ACL buttonKing Arthur may occasionally“freeze up” or refuse to functionproperly because of static elec-tric discharge. If this happens,press

ENGLISH3ENGLISHCongratulations! You now own King Arthur, not just a terrificchess player, but your own personal chess trainer. You’ll beamazed at his

ENGLISH10.3 Battery Information CAUTION: BATTERIESSHOULD BE REMOVEDAND REPLACED BYADULTS ONLY.  King Arthur uses 3 AA bat-teries, not included.  Do

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ENGLISHKING ARTHUR TABLEOFCONTENTS, CONTINUEDCHAPTER 4: GETTINGARATINGATTHEROUNDTABLE...page 18 4.1 Viewing your rating4.2 Submitting a game for rati

1.2 Finding the piecesThe larger compartment lid onthe left conveniently stores yourchess pieces when they’re not inuse. Although one of KingArthur’s

need to move the piece on theboard for him. Follow the sametwo-step procedure you didwhile registering your ownmove—gently pushing on theTO and FROM s

11ENGLISHENGLISH10MOVE KeySwitch sides or makeKing Arthur moveimmediately.Physical chess piecesSETUP KeyAdd or remove pieces and enter special positi

13ENGLISH12ENGLISH3.1 Starting a new gameIf you want to start a newgame, simply push the NEWGAME button when it’s notKing Arthur’s move. KingArthur wi

To show all legal moves for aselected piece, press theOPTION button until HELP isdisplayed. Press the MOVE >key to turn on the option. Thedisplay w

your mind, you can press AUTOagain, and you will see the dis-play read “1PLAYr.”) PressMOVE. King Arthur will playhimself. King Arthur willbecome full