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EXCALIBUR
EXCALIBUR
ELECTRONICS
ELECTRONICS
King Arthur
King Arthur
OPERATING MANUAL English p. 2
www.ExcaliburElectronics.com Model No. 915-3
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ENGLISH ENGLISH ongratulations! You now own King Arthur, not just a terrific chess player, but your own personal chess trainer. You’ll be KING ARTHUR C amazed at his strong, insightful play and delighted by his many unique features, those that make playing chess and improving TABLE OF CONTENTS fun! One of these innovative features is the LCD that automatically shows you the current board position, and lots of other information, at all times! CHAPTER 1: QUICK START & THE BASICS.......... page
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ENGLISH ENGLISH KING ARTHUR TABLE OF CONTENTS, CONTINUED CHAPTER 4: GETTINGARATINGATTHEROUNDTABLE .... page 18 CHAPTER 8: TEACHINGANDTRAINING FEATURES . . . page 25 8.1 Piece training positions 4.1 Viewing your rating The mini-games 4.2 Submitting a game for rating The mating-practice positions 8.2 Mate-problem training CHAPTER 5: SPECIAL MESSAGESFROMCAMELOT ....page 19 8.3 Opening book trainer: learning book openings 5.1 Check the easy way, with King Arthur’s help! 5.2 Ratable game 8.4 Mult
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ENGLISH ENGLISH some products that show an 1.2 ignorance of this basic rule!) KING ARTHUR Finding the pieces You’ll see that King Arthur’s The larger compartment lid on board is of course designed cor- the left conveniently stores your CHAPTER1: rectly. chess pieces when they’re not in Place the chess pieces in their use. Although one of King QUICKSTART& BASICS initial starting position, as Arthur’s breakthrough features shown in the LCD display at the Be sure to read this section. It the pres
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ENGLISH ENGLISH If you make an illegal move, King Arthur will sound a lower In between moves, King Arthur will display the time taken for tone and display the TO and FROM squares necessary to move each move and the number of the move. the piece back to its previous square. When this happens, you need to move the piece on the long as you do not interrupt the must follow the standard procedure of pushing on the FROM and TO squares to get the piece back in its previous position. Then make board f
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ENGLISH ENGLISH KING ARTHUR Sensory Board Recognizes your moves. CHAPTER 2: KEY FUNCTIONS & GENERAL LAYOUT RATING Key Physical chess pieces Check your rating. SETUP Key OPTION Key Add or remove pieces and Select many features. enter special positions. CONTRAST Key HINT Key Adjust display Obtain a hint. contrast. WIN Key Rate a win. THREAT Key AUTO Key See the threat! Watch King Arthur play himself. MODE Key Access training features. LEVEL Key OFF/SAVE Key Change skill levels. MOVE Key Put Kin
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ENGLISH ENGLISH board. You can switch sides FROM squares with your fin- back and forth as often as you ger. KING ARTHUR like. 3.6 Change your mind? CHAPTER3: 3.4 Adjusting Take your move back! the display contrast If you’ve made a move and SPECIAL KEYS & FEATURES To compensate for differences then changed your mind, simply up at your end—close to the 3.1 Starting a new game in lighting and battery strength, press the TAKE BACK key. In LCD. If you want to start a new press the CONTRAST key fact
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ENGLISH ENGLISH the number of the current move. To show all legal moves for a move he is considering, and 3.7 Changing levels If instead you want to display selected piece, press the clock times. These will be dis- of play the piece-score of your current OPTION button until HELP is played while the computer is You can change levels by position to see quickly who’s displayed. Press the MOVE > thinking at its higher levels. pressing the LEVEL key to ahead in material, turn on the key to turn on t
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ENGLISH ENGLISH Press the BOARD key. The sound on, “1” - No sound on, or your mind, you can press AUTO pieces on the LCD chessboard “0” - No sound except for error again, and you will see the dis- 3.18 will disappear—you are now buzzes. Turn this option off by play read “1PLAYr.”) Press Automatic shut-off “blindfolded”! Play chess by pressing >. Exit OPTION mode MOVE. King Arthur will play To save battery power, King picturing in your head where the by pressing ON/CLEAR. himself. King Arthur wi
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ENGLISH ENGLISH game sends your rating up 200 that you’ve won, increase your points. You get 100 points for playing level by 10 when you KING ARTHUR winning your third rated game. play rated games. King Arthur After that, rating adjustments is telling you that you’ve CHAPTER4: are more modest. improved and you need to move On any given level, you can- up to a tougher level of play! GETTING A RATING AT not improve your rating by more King Arthur will send you than 400 points. When you helpful mes
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ENGLISH ENGLISH happens, you can push the be displayed. (Stalemate occurs THREAT key, and King Arthur when one of the players has no KING ARTHUR will flash the threatening move. legal moves but is not in check. Stalemate is one of the ways a CHAPTER6: Draw Messages game can be drawn.) 5.5 Draw SOME SPECIAL CHESS MOVES Game-ending Messages When King Arthur recognizes that a three-fold repetition of the 5.7 Forced checkmates It’s useful to focus on four the captured piece aside, off the position h
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ENGLISH ENGLISH and you have to move the king pawn to a queen, since this is the remove the captured pawn. You pawn before removing it from first. best choice in nearly every case. must press down on the captured the board. Whether you’re castling king- In the unlikely event you want to side or queenside, first move promote your pawn to a piece KING ARTHUR and press your king down on its other than a queen, use King FROM square (if castling king- Arthur’s SET UP feature. (See CHAPTER 7: side, E1
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ENGLISH ENGLISH the stage of the game, and ing. In this mode, King Arthur KING ARTHUR whether or not the FAST level will search faster and look more option is on. deeply into the position. Press > or < to turn FAST on or off. CHAPTER 8: 7.4 Infinite search Press CLEAR to exit options Level 73 is an infinite level. mode. TEACHING AND King Arthur will take as long to move as you want him to, or 7.6 Random level option TRAINING FEATURES until he finds a mate position in Press the OPTION key unti
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ENGLISH ENGLISH Start with the basic king-and- mating-practice exercises will lem you’d like to solve. 8.3 Opening book train- pawns mini-game. Press > until make sure you know the tech- Problems 1-31 are mate-in-two er: learning book open- your display looks like the dia- niques. problems, which means White ings the easy way, with gram below. After pressing MODE until can force mate in two moves. King Arthur’s help “TrAIn” appears, again press > There may or may not be other One of the most stu
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ENGLISH ENGLISH 7. Four Knights forth between a book and a move is not correct, an error books on chess available at 8. Petroff Defense chessboard. But with your King buzz will sound and the move bookstores and libraries. 9. Vienna Game Arthur’s special training feature, will NOT be made. You can take 10. Sicilian, Classical Defense 11. Sicilian, Accelerated Dragon you’ll find yourself learning the another guess, or learn the cor- 8.4 MULTI-MOVE: 12. Sicilian, Rossolimo Attack openings extremely
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ENGLISH ENGLISH ment (more of his pieces are deployed) and ers know many such games by automatically give you the win- tions, and dates of the great the bishop pair (two bishops against a bish- heart. ning side. Make the best move games are given below, along op and knight). These two important advan- tages were all Morphy needed. After Black King Arthur gives you 16 such you find! with a brief explanation of each wastes even more time with another pawn games to enjoy and study. King Arthur will
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ENGLISH ENGLISH 6. Gaudersen vs. Paul, Melbourne, 1928 queen's rook and bishop seem to be waiting "unemployed" queen and rook on a8 and b8! all the way to the 7th rank. Because of this This "miniature" of only 15 moves, starts off for the next game. They don't have long to queening threat, White is able to sacrifice his 12. J. Banas vs. P. Lukacs, Trnava, 1986 as a French Defense in which White plays wait. queen for one of Black's defending rooks. In In a Four Knights' Game, Black gets his king
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ENGLISH ENGLISH queen. If 26. … Qxh6, then White plays 27. pieces—for example, from a up yourself. It also allows you to 9.3 Adding a piece or Qxh6+ and will mate on h7. knight to a queen. Obviously, enter game positions you want changing the type of a At any time during a game this feature lets you strengthen to play, or that you want King piece when it is your move, you may your side of the game or the Arthur to look at, perhaps using To add or change a piece, change the position on the board
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ENGLISH ENGLISH press it until the king is the cor- appears in the right color on KING ARTHUR rect color. (You won’t be permit- your display. ted to leave the SETUP mode Follow this procedure until all until both the White and Black the pieces in the problem or CHAPTER 10: king are placed.) position are completely set up. Next, pick out another piece in Make sure that King Arthur IMPORTANT TECHNICAL the problem or position you knows which color is to move— want to set up, and press the press CON
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ENGLISH ENGLISH 10.3 Battery Information 10.4 Limited One-Year LIMITED ONE-YEAR WARRANTY Warranty Any applicable implied warranties, Ship the unit carefully packed, prefer- CAUTION: BATTERIES including warranties of merchantability ably in the original carton, and send it EXCALIBUR ELECTRONICS, INC., war- SHOULD BE REMOVED and fitness, are hereby limited to 90 prepaid, and adequately insured. Include rants to the original consumer that its prod- AND REPLACED BY DAYS from the date of purchase.
