Managing Games and Players
Checkers allows you to store multiple games on your device. Manage your games from the game list view.
Opening a Saved Game
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Deleting a Game
To delete a game, move the highlight to the game name and select the Delete game menu option. A warning message is displayed requesting you confirm you wish to delete the game.
Players
Choosing the Players menu option presents a list of the players that have been defined. There is a set of computer players. Each computer player represents a different level of difficulty. One human player is automatically created, representing you the device owner. If you wish to play against other people either on the same device or using a different device you need to create a player to represent your opponent.
To create a new player, select the New player menu option. You will be asked to provide a short name or nickname for that player.
To remove a player, move the highlight to the player name and select the Delete player menu option.
SMS Play Overview
Checkers allows you to play a game against other users via SMS. To start your first SMS game you need to take the following steps:
1. Set up a SMS opponent
To create an opponent against whom you are able to play a SMS game select the Players menu option followed by New player. Enter a name by which you would like to refer to the player. To play against this player via SMS Checkers needs to know the phone number of the player.
There are two ways of adding a mobile phone number for a player:
a)Link from Contacts: If the mobile phone number of the player already exists in the Contacts application Checkers will allow you to link directly to it. Simply select Yes when prompted if you wish to select the number from Contacts. Checkers will list all your contacts that have a mobile phone number for you to choose from.
b)Enter number manually: If you prefer to enter the phone number manually, select No when prompted to link to Contacts.
2.Set up the Listen for new game preference
Before an SMS game can be established your opponent must be prepared to accept ‘new game requests’.
To accept new game requests sent by an opponent you need to tell Checkers your preferred Listen for new game options. The following options are available:
Never listen: your device will never listen for new game requests