Excalibur electronic 712 manual Piece Training, Entering Your Own Opening

that	world chess champions
play! At the beginning of a
game, you may choose to learn
one of 32 popular book open-
ings—ways to begin the game—
used by chess masters. Press
OPTIONS		repeatedly to display
OPEN, and then press the			or
the	key to select the number
of the opening you want to
learn. (See list on right.) Press
the	CLEAR key to return to nor-
mal play.
Now play a move. Ivan II, the
Conqueror Talking Chess Set
will tell you if your move is not
the correct opening move. To
learn the correct move press
CLEAR		and then press	HINT.
When the computer comes back
with its move, you will briefly
see the word OPEN on the screen
if you have another opening
move to make. If the word			OPEN
does not appear, you may con-
tinue normal play. You have
completed the training for that
opening line.
The names of the openings
are:
1. Ruy Lopez, Open Defense
2. Ruy Lopez, Zaitsev Defense
3.	Ruy Lopez, Exchange
4.	Scotch Game

5. Scotch Four Knights

6. Giuoco Piano

7. Two Knights Defense

8. Four Knights

9. Petroff’s Defense

10. Sicilian Alapin Variation

11. Sicilian, Najdorf Variation

12. Sicilian, Dragon Variation

13. Sicilian, Keres Attack

14. Caro-Kann Defense

15. Panov-Botvinnik Attack

16. Caro-Kann Excahnge Variation

17. Queen’s Gambit Declined

18. Lasker Defense, Queen

Gambit Declind

19. Queen Gambit

Declined Exchange Var.

20. Slav Defense

21. Queen’s Gambit Accepted

22. Nimzo-Indian Defense,

Classical Var.

23. Nimzo-Indian Defense,

Rubinstein Var.

24. Semi-Slav Defense

25. Queen’s Indian Defense

26. Queen’s Indian Defense,

Petrosian Var.

27. Bogolubow Indian Defense

28. Catalan

29. Gruenfeld Defense

30. King’s Indian Defense

31. Modern Benoni Defense

32. Benko Gambit

The moves and explanations 14 of these famous openings are

given in many books on chess.

Entering Your Own

Opening

Ivan II, the Conqueror Talking Chess Set also allows you to set up any book opening you want—or even an opening you invent—to practice. Press

, then make moves forMULTIMOVEboth sides until the opening position you want to practice is reached. Now press

again. Press MULTIMOVEand play against the computerCLEAR in this position.

Piece Training

You can practice in eight dif- ferent training positions. There are five special minigames and three mating-practice positions.

Mini-game positions The most famous and suc- cessful chess teachers in the world take their beginning stu- dents from the simple to the complex by having them play “mini-games” of chess that con- centrate on just one or more types of pieces. Even advanced players practice these basics, just as a concert pianist contin-

ues to practice the scales so that 15

they remain second nature. Like any great trainer, Ivan II, the Conqueror Talking Chess Set will play you these special prac- tice games.

First make sure you are at the start of a game by pressing

. Now press untilNEW GAME is displayedOP. ThenIONS press theTRAIN key. Look at the LCD to see which of the mini-games are displayed. You'll see that the mini-games always include the king and pawns for both sides. In fact, one mini-game contains just this material. The other four mini-games use kings and pawns, but add a different single piece to the exercise knight, bishop, rook, and then queen.

Start with the basic king and pawns minigame.

Make your first move. Your object, as in regular chess, is to checkmate the king. Normally, this means both sides will try to force a pawn through to the other side of the board safely to promote it to a queen. You'll learn lots of principles, tricks, and traps in this training mode that will win you many full- fledged chess games!