Excalibur Touch Chess II 404ET manual

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    T ouch Chess II Operating Manual Model 404ET Congratulations on your purchase of Excalibur Electronics’ T ouch Chess! Y ou’ve purchased both your own person- al chess trainer and a partner who’ s always ready for a game—and who can improve as you do! Inst all the Batteries Using a small Phillips screwdriver , remove the battery-compartment [...]

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    2 3 your move to switch sides (colors) with your T ouch Chess. (Between presses, the display will show FLIP .) Also use GO to replay moves in the takeback move mode (see " UNDO/ Í ,” on page 2). Menu Options Menu Options Befor e the Game S tarts OPE N : Use the Í or the Î key to select one of 32 book opening lines of play . (See page 4.) [...]

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    4 5 SOUN D : Use this option to turn the sound On or off. FLi P : Use this option to turn the chess board around. SLEE P : Adjust the automatic shut of f time with this key . Setting it to ‘ 0 ’ will disable auto shut-off altogether . CONT R : Adjust the display contrast to one of twelve settings. Playing the Black Pieces When you want to play [...]

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    7 6 Sudden Death Level T ype Press the Í or Î button to select the amount of time in minutes for the entire game. If you run out of time you lose or forfeit, FO RFT will be shown on the display . After every move, you receive a bonus 10 seconds to make up for the time it takes to enter your move. S 05 S 10 S 15 S 20 S 30 S 45 S 60 S 90 T ournamen[...]

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    8 Computers can sometimes "lock up" due to static discharge or other electrical disturbances. If this should happen, use a slim, pointed object to press the but- ton marked “RESET .” 9 repeatedly press the square of the piece you wish to remove until the square on the display is empty . Press CLEAR to continue the game. Adding or Chan[...]

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    11 10 3. A Pawn can be promoted if it advances all the way to the far side of the board. It is immediately promoted, as part of the same move, into a Queen, Rook, Bishop, or Knight, whichever its owner chooses. Since a Queen is the most powerful piece, it is nearly always chosen as the promo- tion piece. Through the promotion process, there may be [...]

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