Manuale d’uso / di manutenzione del prodotto 915-3 del fabbricante Excalibur electronic
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King King Ar Ar thur thur www .ExcaliburElectronics.com Model No. 915-3 E E X X C C A A L L I I B B U U R R E E L L E E C C T T R R O O N N I I C C S S OPERA TING MANUAL English p.
ENGLISH 3 ENGLISH C ongratulations! Y ou no w o wn King Ar thur , not just a ter rif ic chess pla yer , but your o wn personal chess trainer . Y ou’ ll be amazed at his strong, insightful pla y and .
ENGLISH KING AR THUR T ABLE OF CONTENTS , CONTINUED CHAPTER 4: GETTING A RA TING A T THE ROUND TABLE .... page 18 4.1 V iewing your rating 4.2 Submitting a game for rating CHAPTER 5: SPECIAL MESSAGES FROM CAMELO T .... page 19 5.1 Check 5.2 Ratable game 5.
1.2 F inding the pieces The larger compartment lid on the left con venientl y stores your chess pieces when the y’ re not in use. Although one of King Arthur’ s breakthrough features permits you to pla y without using these pieces, let’ s start by using them.
need to mo ve the piece on the board for him. F ollo w the same tw o-step procedure you did while re gistering your o wn mo ve—gently pushing on the T O and FR OM squares and lis- tening for the conf irming tones. Y ou’ re already playing a game! Enjo y the contest.
11 ENGLISH ENGLISH 10 MO VE Key Switch sides or make King Arthur move immediately. Physical c hess pieces SETUP K ey Add or remo ve pieces and enter special positions. HINT K ey Obtain a hint. AU TO K e y W atch King Ar thur play himself. LEVEL K ey Change skill lev els.
13 ENGLISH 12 ENGLISH 3.1 Starting a new game If you w ant to star t a new game, simpl y push the NEW GAME button when it’ s not King Arthur’ s mo ve.
T o sho w all legal mo ves for a selected piece, press the OPTION button until HELP is displa yed. Press the MO VE > ke y to tur n on the option. The displa y will sho w HELP . Exit OPTION mode b y pressing ON/CLEAR. 3.11 Displaying thr eats King Ar thur will tell you w hen there is a serious threat b y dis- pla ying the “ ! ” sign.
your mind , you can press A UT O again, and you will see the dis- pla y read “ 1PLA Yr . ”) Press MO VE. King Ar thur will pla y himself. King Ar thur will become full y automatic, not needing an y mo ve-registration help from you. Y ou can see his mo ves on the displa y .
4.1 Viewing your r ating Press the RA TING ke y to view your current rating. But under- stand that your rating w on’ t change until you “submit” games to the Round T able for rating. 4.2 Submitting a game f or rating Like an y off icial tour nament game, to be eligible for rating, your game must be pla yed with no HINTS or T AKE-B A CKS.
It’ s useful to focus on four chess mo ves—capturing, cast- ling, promoting pa wns, and en passant —to make sure y ou understand ho w to operate your King Ar thur when emplo ying these mo ves.
remo ve the captured pa wn. Y ou must press do wn on the captured pa wn before remo ving it from the board. 23 ENGLISH and you ha ve to mo ve the king f irst. Whether you’ re castling king- side or queenside, f irst mo ve and press your king do wn on its FR OM square (if castling king- side, E1).
8.1 Piece T raining P ositions Y ou can practice in eight dif- ferent training positions. There are f i ve special mini-games and three mating-practice positions.
lem you’ d like to solv e. Problems 1-31 are mate-in-tw o problems, w hich means White can force mate in tw o mo ves. There ma y or ma y not be other w ays to win, but y ou’ re looking for the tw o mo ves that will result in checkmate. Most of the time, the f irst of these mo ves is the hardest to f ind.
7. F our Knights 8. P etr off Defense 9. V ienna Game 10. Sicilian, Classical Defense 11. Sicilian, Accelerated Drag on 12. Sicilian, Rossolimo Attack 13. Sicilian, Dragon V ariation 14. Sicilian, Schev eningen V ariation 15. Sicilian, Najdorf V ariation 16.
tions, and dates of the great games are gi ven belo w , along with a brief explanation of each game b y popular chess writer Al La wrence. (All game explana- tions are © 2000 b y Al La wrence; all rights reserved.
"unemplo yed" queen and rook on a8 and b8! 12. J. Banas vs. P . Lukacs, T rna va, 1986 In a F our Knights' Game, Black gets his king into safety by castling and tak es advantage of White's a wkward piece placement b y sacri- f icing his knight with 9.
9.3 Adding a piece or changing the type of a piece T o add or change a piece, press SETUP , then press the key that indicates the type of piece you w ant to place on the board. Then press the square on the sensory board until the piece appears as the cor rect color on your displa y board.
10.1 The A CL button King Ar thur ma y occasionally “freeze up” or refuse to function properl y because of static elec- tric discharge. If this happens, press the ALL CLEAR (A CL) button. T o do this, tur n King Ar thur upside-do wn so the battery com- partment is on the upper right.
ENGLISH 10.3 Battery Inf ormation CA UTION: B A TTERIES SHOULD BE REMO VED AND REPLA CED BY ADUL TS ONL Y . King Ar thur uses 3 AA bat- teries, not included. Do not mix old and ne w batteries. Do not mix alkaline, stan- dard (carbon-zinc) or rechargeab le (nickel-cadmi- um) batteries.
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