Excalibur Electronics 915-3 - Manuals

Page 2 - KING ARTHUR; TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER 2: KEY FUNCTIONS & GENERAL LAYOUT

ENGLISH 3 ENGLISH C ongratulations! You now own King Arthur, not just a terrif icchess player, but your own personal chess trainer. You’ll beamazed at his strong, insightful play and delighted by his many unique features, those that make playing chess and improvingfun! One of these innovative featur...

Page 3 - TABLE OF CONTENTS, CONTINUED

ENGLISH KING ARTHUR TABLE OF CONTENTS, CONTINUED CHAPTER 4: GETTING A RATING AT THE ROUND TABLE . . . . page 18 4.1 Viewing your rating 4.2 Submitting a game for rating CHAPTER 5: SPECIAL MESSAGES FROM CAMELOT . . . . page 19 5.1 Check5.2 Ratable game 5.3 Two-player mode 5.4 Threat5.5 Draw5.6 Stalem...

Page 5 - King Arthur’s display will always show

need to move the piece on theboard for him. Follow the sametwo-step procedure you didwhile registering your ownmove—gently pushing on theTO and FROM squares and lis-tening for the conf irming tones.You’re already playing a game!Enjoy the contest. 1.6 Putting a game “on hold” Want to stop for a phone...

Page 7 - Starting a new game; SPECIAL KEYS & FEATURES

13 ENGLISH 12 ENGLISH 3.1 Starting a new game If you want to start a new game, simply push the NEWGAME button when it’s notKing Arthur’s move. KingArthur will sound the “charge”for a new game. 3.2 Playing the Blackpieces from the start ofa game Since White always moves f irst, you’ll want to practic...

Page 8 - Displaying threats

To show all legal moves for a selected piece, press theOPTION button until HELP isdisplayed. Press the MOVE >key to turn on the option. Thedisplay will show HELP. ExitOPTION mode by pressingON/CLEAR. 3.11 Displaying threats King Arthur will tell you when there is a serious threat by dis-playing t...

Page 10 - SPECIAL MESSAGES

4.1 Viewing your rating Press the RATING key to view your current rating. But under-stand that your rating won’tchange until you “submit”games to the Round Table forrating. 4.2 Submitting a game for rating Like any off icial tournament game, to be eligible for rating,your game must be played withno ...

Page 11 - Draw Messages; Forced checkmates; Other checkmates; SOME SPECIAL CHESS MOVES

It’s useful to focus on four chess moves—capturing, cast-ling, promoting pawns, and enpassant—to make sure youunderstand how to operate yourKing Arthur when employingthese moves. 6.1 Capturing To win at chess, you’ve got to know how to take your oppo-nent’s men! Capturing men whileplaying your King ...

Page 12 - ALL ABOUT LEVELS; Fixed ply levels

remove the captured pawn. Youmust press down on the captured pawn before removing it fromthe board. 23 ENGLISH and you have to move the kingf irst. Whether you’re castling king- side or queenside, f irst moveand press your king down on itsFROM square (if castling king-side, E1). Then move and pressy...

Page 13 - Fast level option; TEACHING AND

8.1 Piece Training Positions You can practice in eight dif- ferent training positions. Thereare f ive special mini-games andthree mating-practice positions. The mini-gamesThe most famous and success- ful chess teachers in the worldtake their beginning studentsfrom the simple to the complexby having ...

Page 14 - All of these training modes can be made

lem you’d like to solve.Problems 1-31 are mate-in-twoproblems, which means Whitecan force mate in two moves.There may or may not be otherways to win, but you’re lookingfor the two moves that will resultin checkmate. Most of the time,the f irst of these moves is thehardest to f ind. Problem 32 is ama...

Page 15 - After the first move of any opening,

7. Four Knights8. Petroff Defense9. Vienna Game 10. Sicilian, Classical Defense11. Sicilian, Accelerated Dragon12. Sicilian, Rossolimo Attack13. Sicilian, Dragon Variation14. Sicilian, Scheveningen Variation 15. Sicilian, Najdorf Variation16. Sicilian, Moscow Variation17. Caro-Kann Defense18. Panov-...

Page 18 - Using the above three techniques, you can

9.3 Adding a piece orchanging the type of apiece To add or change a piece, press SETUP, then press the keythat indicates the type of pieceyou want to place on the board.Then press the square on thesensory board until the pieceappears as the correct color onyour display board. PressCLEAR to continue ...

Page 19 - IMPORTANT TECHNICAL

10.1 The ACL button King Arthur may occasionally “freeze up” or refuse to functionproperly because of static elec-tric discharge. If this happens,press the ALL CLEAR (ACL)button. To do this, turn King Arthur upside-down so the battery com-partment is on the upper right.The ALL CLEAR button isrecesse...

Page 20 - Battery Information

ENGLISH 10.3 Battery Information CAUTION: BATTERIESSHOULD BE REMOVEDAND REPLACED BYADULTS ONLY. King Arthur uses 3 AA bat-teries, not included. Do not mix old and newbatteries. Do not mix alkaline, stan-dard (carbon-zinc) orrechargeable (nickel-cadmi-um) batteries. Do not use rechargeablebatteries. ...