Excalibur electronic CHESS STATION 975-3-EFG User Manual

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ENGLISH

Play a Game Right Away

After you have installed the bat-

teries, the display will show the

chess board with all the pieces on

their starting squares. The LCD

will also show 01CHESS. This

indicates you are at the first move

of the game and ready to play

chess. If it does not display

01CHESS, press RESET using a

thin pointed object.

Unless you instruct it otherwise,

Electronic Chess gives you the

White pieces—the ones at the bot-

tom of the board. White always

moves first.You’re ready to play!

It’s very important to understand

that making a move is made up of

two parts, choosing a from square

and a to square. In the center of the

key pad, there are eight DIREC-
TION

keys — right, left, up, down,

and the four diagonal directions.

1. Press a DIRECTION key and

the White king’s pawn (the pawn in

front of the king) will flash on and

off. The LCD will also show

01FrOm. To select a different piece

to move, press a DIRECTION

key— right, left, up, down, or diag-

onal—until the piece or pawn you

want to move flashes on and off.

2. Press the OPTIONS/GO key

in the center of the DIRECTION

keys. FrOm will disappear. Time

will start counting.

3. Press a DIRECTION key to

move the piece to the square you

want. You’ll see your piece flashing

on possible to squares as you move

it—at the same time it continues to

flash on its from square.

Note: Press

CLEAR to stop a

square from flashing in #1 or #3
above, and start the move entry
process over.

4. Press the OPTIONS/GO key

again to finalize your move.

LCD Chess will now respond

with its move, flashing the move

for a few seconds. Enter your next

move by repeating the above steps,

and have fun.

Special Features and

Function Keys

Your LCD Chess partner is

packed with valuable special fea-

tures that can help you learn to play

better and better chess—and to

have a lot of fun!

But there are more special fea-

tures than there are keys! So each

key has two labels, one above and

one below.

The black label below each key

shows the primary function of the

key. The blue label above the key

shows its secondary function.

Below are the features available

to you through the primary func-

tions. Remember, to access any of

these features, you simply push the

proper key, looking at the black

label below the key.

Primary Key Functions

NEXT/2nd

KEY

This is a special key, so its color

is blue. Use this key to select the

secondary function mode of the

other keys. (See "Secondary

Functions," page 3.)

During move entry, this key acts

as a NEXT piece key. Use the
NEXT

piece key, if you have diffi-

culty getting to the piece you wish

to move using the DIRECTION

keys. During move entry, press this

key repeatedly to scan backward to

select a piece to move.

CLEAR/ON

KEY

Use this key to turn on LCD

Chess. You can even use it as a

clear or "escape" key to exit any of

the special modes like OPTIONS,

SETUP, LEVEL, RATING and

CONTRAST.

HINT

KEY

Pressing this key displays HinT

and flashes a recommended move

on the screen. To make the hint

move, just press the GO key. Or

press a DIRECTION key to select

a different piece to move.

If the hint is a book move or a

replay move, OPEn or rPLAY will

be shown instead of HinT .

UNDO

KEY

This key lets you take back a

move or moves you’ve decided

against. Press this key repeatedly to

continue taking back moves. After

you take back a move, you can use

the GO key to replay the taken-

back move or moves.

KEY

Press this key to register your

move, or press it twice before you

(colors) with your computer.

(Between presses, the display will

read FLIP.) Also use GO to replay

moves in the take-back mode (see

"UNDO,” above).

OFF

KEY

This key turns the unit off, auto-

Your Pocket LCD Chess is packed with features!

Each key has two labels. To activate the feature named below the

key, just press the key. To enjoy the feature given above the key, first

press NEXT/2nd and then the key.