Excalibur electronic CHESS STATION 975-3-EFG - Manual (Page 6)

Entering Your Own Opening
Electronic Chess also allows you
to set up any book opening you
want—or even an opening you
invent—to practice. Press 2nd then
repeatedly press PLAYER until the
display reads 2PLAYr. Press
CLEAR
, then make moves for both
sides until the opening position you
want to practice is reached. Now
press 2nd then repeatedly press
PLAYER
until the display reads
1PLAYr. Press CLEAR and play
against the computer in this posi-
tion.
Great Games
At the beginning of the game,
you may select one of sixteen of the
world’s greatest chess games by
pressing 2nd, then OPTIONS twice
to display GAME, and then press-
ing the -1 or +1 key to select a game
number.
Along with the game number,
you will see the position of the
game after the first two moves were
played. Press the CLEAR key to
return to normal play starting at
move three. You take the winning
side. The display will show your
total great-game score in two digits
(zero at the start) on the left. On the
right, the display also shows the
amount of points you will win if
you play the correct next great-
game move.
If you don’t play the correct
great-game move, an error buzz
will sound and the points for this
move will be divided in half. If the
bonus goes to zero, the correct
move will automatically flash.
Most moves start with 4 bonus
points, but some brilliant moves
start with 8 points.
Go online to the World Chess
Hall of Fame & Sidney Samole
Museum to find out more about
chess and chess greats:
www.chessmuseum.org
The number, players, locations, and dates of
the great games are given below, along with
a brief explanation of each game. (All game
explanations are © 2000 by Al Lawrence; all
rights reserved.)
1. Adolf Anderssen vs. Lionel
Kieseritsky, London, 1851
This marvelous attacking game, a King's
Gambit, is widely known as "The Immortal
Game." Both players show the 19th-century
preference for attack at all costs, and
Anderssen was one of the most ingenious
attackers of all time. After 18. Bd6, he gives
away both of his rooks and his queen! In the
final position, his tiny force is deployed in
just the right way to bring the complete Black
army to its knees.
2. Adolf Anderssen vs. J. Dufresne,
Berlin, 1852
Again we see Anderssen bamboozling his
opponent. The game starts as an Evan's
Gambit, a form of the Giuoco Piano. White's
19th move, Rad1!! is one of the most cele-
brated in the history of the game. With his
reply, … Qxf3, Black actually wins a knight
and threatens mate. You'd think that would
be enough! But Anderssen follows with a
rook and queen sacrifice that forces check-
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play OPEn, and then press the -1 or
+1
keys to select the number of the
opening you want to learn. (See
right.) Then press the CLEAR key
to return to normal play.
Now play a move. If your move
is not the correct opening move, an
error buzz will sound. To learn the
correct move press HINT. When
the computer comes back with its
move, you will briefly see the word
OPEn on the screen if you have
another opening move to make. If
the word OPEn does not appear,
you may continue normal play. You
have completed the training for that
opening line.
The names of the openings are:
1. Ruy Lopez, Exchange
Variation
2. Ruy Lopez, Closed Defense
3. Ruy Lopez, Open Defense
4. Ruy Lopez Archangel
Defense
5. Giuoco Piano
6. Scotch Game
7. Four Knights
8. Petroff Defense
9. Vienna Game
10. Sicilian, Classical Defense
11. Sicilian, Accelerated
Dragon
12. Sicilian, Rossolimo Attack
13. Sicilian, Dragon Variation
14. Sicilian, Scheveningen
Variation
15. Sicilian, Najdorf Variation
16. Sicilian, Moscow Variation
17. Caro-Kann Defense
18. Panov-Botvinnik Attack
19. French Defense, Winawer
Variation
20. French Defense,
Classical Defense
21. French Defense,
McCutcheon
Variation
22. French Defense, Tarrasch
Variation
23. Queen’s Gambit Accepted
24. Queen’s Gambit Declined
25. Queen’s Gambit, Semi-Slav
Defense
26. Queen’s Gambit, Tarrasch
Defense
27. Queen’s Gambit, Slav
Defense
28. Nimzo-Indian Defense,
Rubinstein Var.
29. Nimzo-Indian Defense,
Classical Variation
30. Queen’s Indian Defense
31. Queen’s Indian
Defense, Petrosian
Variation
32. Bogo-Indian Defense
33. Gruenfeld Defense
34. King’s Indian Defense
The moves and explanations of
these famous openings are given in
many books on chess.
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