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KING ARTHUR
CHAPTER 4:
GETTING A RATING AT THE ROUND TABLE
game sends your rating up 200 points. You get 100 points for winning your third rated game. After that, rating adjustments are more modest.
On any given level, you can- not improve your rating by more than 400 points. When you notice that your rating does not go up when you submit a game
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that you’ve won, increase your playing level by 10 when you play rated games. King Arthur is telling you that you’ve improved and you need to move up to a tougher level of play!
King Arthur will send you helpful messages while you play.
4.1
Viewing your rating
Press the RATING key to view your current rating. But under- stand that your rating won’t change until you “submit” games to the Round Table for rating.
4.2
simply press the RATING key and then press the appropriate key: WIN, DRAW, or LOSS, depending on your result in the game. That’s all there is to it. King Arthur will automatically adjust your rating. However, when you checkmate King Arthur, he will display “LOSE.” Before updating your rating, you
KING ARTHUR
CHAPTER 5:
SPECIAL MESSAGES FROM CAMELOT
Submitting a game for rating
Like any official tournament game, to be eligible for rating, your game must be played with no HINTS or
To enter a game for rating, immediately after finishing it,
must press the NEW GAME key and then the RATING key to register your win. The “0” sym- bol will remain on, even when NEW GAME is pressed.
Arthur weighs your first three rated games the most heavily in order to establish a rough esti- mate of your strength quickly. Winning your first rated game increases your rating by 300 points. Winning your second
5.1 Check
When you are in check, King Arthur will alert you by display- ing a “+” sign.
5.2 Ratable Game
When a game is ratable (see Chapter 4), King Arthur will display a “0.”
5.3 Two-player mode
To remind you when you are in
5.4 Threat
King Arthur will tell you when there is a serious threat by displaying the “!” sign. (See also Section 3.11.) When this
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