EXCALIBUR 375X LCD Chess Express - Manual (Page 8)

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Using Setup Mode
At any time during a game when it is your
move, you may change the position on
the board by adding a piece, removing a
piece, or changing any of the pieces—for
example, from a queen to a knight.
Removing A Piece
Press MENU repeatedly until SETUP
is shown, and then press GO. Use the
DIRECTION buttons to move the king
cross over a piece. Press GO to remove
the piece. Press CLEAR to continue the
game.
Adding or Changing a Piece
Press MENU repeatedly until SETUP
is shown, and then press GO. Now press
HINT/NEXT repeatedly to select the cor-
rect piece and use the MENU/
! key
to select the correct color.
Use the DIRECTION buttons to move it
to a square. Then press GO to register the
piece. Press CLEAR to continue the
game.
Setting Up Special Positions
This is another terrific feature that allows
you to solve problems that you see in
magazines or newspapers, or that you
make up yourself. It also allows you to
enter game positions you want to play, or
that you want LCD Chess to look at, per-
haps using the Infinite Search level.
Normally, it is easier to start from an
empty board to set up such problems. So
first, press MENU repeatedly until
CLRBR (clear board) is displayed. Then
press the GO key. You’ll see that your
display board is automatically cleared,
except for a White king.
Use the DIRECTION buttons to move
the White king to the correct square and
press GO. Continue by placing the Black
king on it’s square. (You can’t leave the
SETUP mode until both the White and
Black king are placed.) Repeatedly press
the NEXT key or PREV key to select the
piece type you want to place on the
board. To change the piece’s color, use
the MENU/
! key. Don’t forget to
press GO to register the piece on the
board.
Follow this procedure until all the pieces
in the problem or position are completely
set up. Finally, press CLEAR to play or to
have LCD Chess analyze the position.
Make sure that LCD Chess knows which
color is to move. When you first enter
setup mode, you may change the color of
the side to move by pressing
MENU/
!.
Computers can sometimes "lock
up" due to static discharge or
other electrical disturbances. If
this should happen, use a slim,
pointed object to press the but-
ton marked “RESET.”
General Rules of Chess
1. The two players must alternate in mak-
ing one move at a time. The player with
the white pieces moves first to start the
game.
2. With the exception of castling (see
below), a move is the transfer of a piece