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Users Guide for
King Arthur
LEA ESTE INSTRUCTIVO ANTES DE OPERAR
ESTE PRODUCTO
Manual de
Operaciones
King Arthur
PRECAUTIONS:
• Use with adult supervision
• Do not leave unit on without
supervision • Do not use the unit
if it is damaged or broken
• Do not use near fire • Do not
use near water or moist areas
PRECAUCIONES:
• Utilizar bajo la vigilancia
de un adulto • Nunca deje al
niño sin supervision • Deje de
usar el juuete si llegara a
romperse o dañarse • No de
utilice cerca del fue
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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........... ....p
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ENGLISH ENGLISH KING ARTHUR TABLE OF CONTENTS continued CHAPTER 8: TEACHING AND TRAINING FEATURES . . . page 32 CHAPTER 4: GETTING A RATING AT THE ROUND TABLE . . . . page 23 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 MESSAGES FROM CAMELOT. . . . page 25 8.3 Opening book trainer: learning book openings 5.1 Check the easy way, with King Arthur’s help! 5.2 Ratabl
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ENGLISH ENGLISH into place. Leave King Arthur azine ads, movies and even face down. some products that show an KING ARTHUR ignorance of this basic rule!) You’ll see that King Arthur’s 1.2 Finding the pieces CHAPTER 1: board is of course designed cor- The larger compartment lid on rectly. the left conveniently stores your QUICK START & BASICS Place the chess pieces in their chess pieces when they’re not in initial starting position, as use. Although one of King shown in the diagram below, Arthur’
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ENGLISH ENGLISH IN BETWEEN MOVES, KING ARTHUR WILL DISPLAY THE TIME TAKEN FOR IF YOU MAKE AN ILLEGAL MOVE, KING ARTHUR WILL SOUND A LOWER TONE AND EACH MOVE AND THE NUMBER OF THE MOVE. DISPLAY THE TO AND FROM SQUARES NECESSARY TO MOVE THE PIECE BACK TO ITS PREVIOUS SQUARE. WHEN THIS HAPPENS, YOU MUST FOLLOW THE STANDARD board for him. Follow the same resume play, just press the PROCEDURE OF PUSHING ON THE FROM AND TO SQUARES TO GET THE PIECE two-step procedure you did ON/CLEAR key. A word of wa
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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. o/n 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 MODE KEY play himself. Access training features. LEVEL KEY OFF/SAVE KEY Change skill levels. MOVE KEY
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ENGLISH ENGLISH game and color and giving him to make it clear, but you will not yours, by pushing the MOVE but- have to register his move. In KING ARTHUR ton. The pieces will remain as this mode, the large playing they are, meaning you will be board acts as a touch screen so CHAPTER 3: playing from the top of the that you can input your moves board. You can switch sides by pressing TO and FROM SPECIAL KEYS back and forth as often as you squares with your finger. like. & FEATURES 3.6 Change y
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ENGLISH ENGLISH to the original move, you can the total game time displayed. want to see what King Arthur When turned on, this option press the MOVE key to replay the would recommend, press HINT, will display the score, depth of TAKENBACK move or moves. Displaying and the display will show you search (number of moves King the position score: the move King Arthur believes Arthur is “thinking ahead”), best 3.7 Your display normally shows to be best. move he is considering, and Changing levels of p
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ENGLISH ENGLISH chance to test yourself at this played. Select between “2” - All your mind, you can press AUTO 3.18 Automatic shut-off feat. To use this option, clear the sound on, “1” - No sound on, or again, and you will see the dis- To save battery power, King large playing board of pieces. “0” - No sound except for error play read “1PLAYr.”) Press Arthur will turn himself off Press the BOARD key. The pieces buzzes. Turn this option off by MOVE. King Arthur will play when no key has been pres
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ENGLISH ENGLISH points. You get 100 points for your playing level by 10 when winning your third rated game. you play rated games. King KING ARTHUR After that, rating adjustments Arthur is telling you that you’ve are more modest. improved and you need to move CHAPTER 4: On any given level, you can- up to a tougher level of play! not improve your rating by King Arthur will send you GETTING A RATING AT more than 400 points. When helpful messages while you you notice that your rating does play. T
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ENGLISH ENGLISH happens, you can push the Game-ending THREAT key, and King Arthur Messages KING ARTHUR will flash the threatening move. 5.7 Forced checkmates King Arthur will announce CHAPTER 6: Draw when he can force a mate-in-two Messages (“MAtE2”) or a mate-in-three SOME SPECIAL 5.5 Draw (“MAtE3”). He will display When King Arthur recognizes “MatE,” along with “+” when CHESS MOVES that a three-fold repetition of the executing a checkmate. Follow the normal procedure: position has occurred,
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ENGLISH ENGLISH and press your king down on its other than a queen, use King You already know, from level that gives both you and FROM square (if castling king- Arthur’s SETUP feature. (See Chapter 3, section 3.7, how to King Arthur a reasonable chance side, E1). Then move and press Chapter 9.) select the level King Arthur is of winning. Try to find a level at your king down on its TO square King Arthur immediately rec- playing at. With his 72 levels of which you win about half the (if castling
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ENGLISH ENGLISH 7.4 Infinite search 7.6 Random level option KING ARTHUR LEVEL 73 is an infinite level. Press the OPTION key until the King Arthur will take as long to display shows “RAND,” which CHAPTER 8: move as you want him to, or stands for “random.” “RAND” until he finds a mate position in allows King Arthur to choose TEACHING AND his search. LEVEL 73 is perfect between good moves randomly for problem solving (see so that you get to practice and TRAINING FEATURES Chapter 10). You can also
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ENGLISH ENGLISH Make your first move. Your two bishops, two rooks, or the correct moves to a problem by ers had to spend tedious hours object, as in regular chess, is to queen. These are excellent exer- setting his level to 73, and then searching out lines of play from checkmate the king. Normally, cises, used by the greatest chess pressing the MOVE key. hard-to-follow columns in books. this means both sides will try to teachers in the world. In all three This practice required a confus- force
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ENGLISH ENGLISH McCutcheon Variation MODE until “OP En” is dis- completed the training for that Then make moves for both sides 22. French Defense, played. Then press > until the opening line. until the opening position you Tarrasch Variation number of the opening (see list Below are the numbers and 23. Queen’s Gambit Accepted want to practice is reached. 24. Queen’s Gambit Declined below) you want to learn or names of openings that you can Then press MULTI-MOVE again to 25. Queen’s Gambit, rev
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ENGLISH ENGLISH preference for attack at all costs, and the most brilliant move of the game is 22. the world’s most brilliant If you don’t play the correct Anderssen was one of the most ingenious Rxe7+. At first glance, it simply looks like a games!) great-game move, an error buzz attackers of all time. After 18. Bd6, he gives blunder. All of White's pieces are attacked, away both of his rooks and his queen! In the and if Black wasn't in check, he could play To access this feature, at the will
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ENGLISH ENGLISH 7. Edward Lasker vs. 10. Jose Capablanca vs. Herman Steiner, It is no longer typical to see top-level players quickly. Then he plays 14. h2-h4!, sacrific- George Thomas, London, 1910 Los Angeles, 1933 playing only for the attack. In fact, Korchnoi ing another pawn to force the Black queen This masterpiece, a Dutch Defense, features The handsome Cuban World Champion Jose at the time of this game was one of the best away from the g7-square. After that, Black's a famous example of
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ENGLISH ENGLISH this feature lets you strengthen King Arthur to solve or a posi- cally cleared. The word “nOnE” 9.4 Setting up special your side of the game or the tion you want to practice with will appear. positions & problems computer’s, resurrect lost pieces, King Arthur. Your LCD board You’re ready to set up the Using the three techniques or even move your king out of display makes it easy to see the kings in the new position. above, you can easily relocate a an imminent checkmate threat.
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ENGLISH ENGLISH appears in the right color on KING ARTHUR your display. Follow this procedure until all the pieces in the problem or CHAPTER 10: position are completely set up. Make sure that King Arthur IMPORTANT TECHNICAL knows which color is to move— press CONTRAST to change the DETAILS side to move. Finally, press CLEAR to play or to have King 10.1 The ACL button Arthur analyze the position. King Arthur may occasionally “freeze up” or refuse to function properly because of static electric
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ENGLISH FRANÇAIS 10.3 Battery Information u Your King Arthur Chess Computer uses 3 “AA” batteries. u Do not mix old and new batteries. u Do not mix alkaline and standard (carbon zinc) or rechargeable (nickel Radio Shack of Mexico cadmium) batteries. u Install batteries so that the polarity (+ and -) matches the diagrams in GUARANTEE POLICY the battery compartment. AV. JARDÍN No. 245 u Weak batteries should be replaced immediately. COL. TLATILCO, C.P. 02860 u Before changing batteries, turn t
