Excalibur electronic 404-2 manual Changing Games, Basics of Checkers

Pawn is diagrammed below:

3. A Pawn can be promoted if it advances all the way to the far side of the board. It is immediately pro- moted, as part of the same move, into a Queen, Rook, Bishop, or Knight, whichever its owner choos- es. Since a Queen is the most powerful piece, it is nearly always chosen as the promotion piece. Through the promotion process, there may be more than one Queen on the board at the same time.

Some Tips on Chess

1. Castle your King into safety as soon as possible.

2. If you control the center squares you will achieve an advantage. To do this, move your center Pawns and develop your Bishops and Knights early in the game.

3. Take advantage of capture situ- ations, particulary if you will gain material.

CHECKERS

Changing Games

After you have installed the batter- ies, the display will show the chess board with all the pieces on their starting squares. The LCD will also show 01CHESS. This indicates you are at the first move of the game and ready to play chess. If it does not display 01CHESS, press ACL using the stylus.

Whenever CHESS is shown on the display, you may change to Checkers by pressing the 2nd key, and then pressing the START key. The LCD display will show 01CHECr and will also show the checkerboard with all the pieces on their starting squares.

To change back to Chess press the 2nd key, then press the START key. Remember, you can only change games when CHESS or CHECr is showing on the display.

The Basics of Checkers

Each player gets 12 checkers and places his men on all of the dark squares in the first three rows in front of him. In contrast to chess, Black moves first. But like chess, the first player normally moves

16from the "bottom" of the LCD