Excalibur electronic 915-3 manuale d’uso

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. 2[...]

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 delighted by his man y unique features, those that make pla ying chess and impro ving fun! One of these inno vati ve features is the LCD that automati[...]

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 5.3 T w o-pla yer mode 5.4 Threat 5.5 Dra w 5.6 Stalemate 5.7 F orced checkmates 5.8 Other check[...]

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. Open the larger lid in the same method you used in Step 1. Remo ve the pieces and se[...]

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. 1.6 Putting a game “on hold” W ant to stop for a phone call, or e ven a w e[...]

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. NEW GAME Key Start a new game. T AKEB A CK Key T ake back a mistake. MUL TI-MO[...]

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. King Arthur will sound the “charge” for a ne w game. 3.2 Playing the Blac k pieces from the start of a game Since White al wa ys mo ves f irst, you’ ll want to practice pla ying Black as w [...]

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. (See als[...]

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 . Y ou can stop auto pla y by pressing the MO VE key again. All other opti[...]

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. When[...]

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. 6.1 Capturing T o win at chess, you’ ve got to kno w ho w to take y our oppo- nent’ s men! Capturing men while pla ying y our King Arthur is real- [...]

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). Then mo ve and press your king do wn on its TO squ[...]

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. The mini-games The most famous and success- ful chess teachers in the w orld take their be ginning students from the simple to the complex b y having them pla y “mini- games” of chess[...]

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. Prob lem 32 is a mate-in-three. If you c[...]

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. Sicilian, Mosco w V ariation 17. Car o-Kann Defense 18. P anov-Botvinnik Attack 19. F rench[...]

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.) 1. Adolf Anderssen vs. Lionel Kieseritsky , London, 1851 This marvelous attacking game, a King's Gambit, is widely kno wn as &quo[...]

"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. … Nf3+. Then he allo ws White to take his bishop on c5. But b y that time, W[...]

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. Press CLEAR to continue the game. 9.4 Setting up special pos[...]

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. The ALL CLEAR button is recessed. Y ou'll see a "di[...]

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.  Do not use rechargeab le batteries.  T o [...]

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