Excalibur electronic E123 manual Entering Your Own Opening, Levels of Play

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 of these famous openings are given in many books on chess.

Entering Your Own Opening

LCD Chess also allows you to set up any book opening you want—or even an opening you invent—to practice. Press OPTIONS repeatedly until the display shows PLYr. Use + button to set play- ers to 2. Press CLEAR, then make moves for both sides until the opening position you want to practice is reached. Now press OPTIONS repeatedly until the dis- play shows PLYr. Use the + button to set players to 1. Press CLEAR and play against the computer in this position.

Levels of Play

Press LEVEL to see the current level. When you are finished reviewing the level or changing the level, press CLEAR to return to normal play.

At this point you may press LEVEL again to change to a different level type. There are six types of levels.

Beginner Level Type

Press the + or - button to select 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, or 15 seconds per move.

B 001 B 002 B 003 B 004

B 005 B 007 B 010 B 015

Fixed Time Level Type

Press the + or - button to select 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 45 seconds, and 1:00, 1:30, 2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:00 minutes per move. FIXED Time Level "inf" is infinite time, and will only stop thinking when the GO key is pressed, or a mate is found.

F 001 F 002 F 003 F 005

F 010 F 015 F 020 F 030

F 045 F 100 F 130 F 200

F 230 F 300 F 500 F inF

Sudden Death Level Type

Press the + or - button to select the amount of time in minutes for the entire game. If you run out of time you lose or forfeit, FrFt will be shown on the dis- play. After every move, you receive a bonus 10 seconds to make up for the time it takes to enter your move.

S 05 S 10 S 15 S 20

S 30 S 45 S 60 S 90

Tournament Level Type

Press the + or - button to select the the amount of time in MINUTES to play the number of moves shown on the left side of the display. If you run out of time before you play the indicated number of moves, you lose or forfeit, FrFt will be shown on the display. After every move, you receive a bonus 10 seconds to make up for the time it takes to enter your

7