Excalibur electronic LCD CHESS manual Installsmallthe Batteries, English, Moving with the

LCD

Computer

Chess

Operating Manual

Congratulations on your purchase of Excalibur Electronics’ innova- tive LCD Chess! You’ve purchased both your own personal chess train- er and a partner who’s always ready for a game—and who can improve as you do!

Installsmallthe Batteries

Using a Phillips screwdriver, remove the battery-compartment panel screw on the back of LCD Chess. Then remove the panel by pulling gently from the top. Install three fresh, alkaline AAA batteries, making sure to follow the diagram in each battery slot so that the polarity (+ or -)

of the batter- ies is

correct.

Replace the battery compartment panel by first fitting the two bottom tabs into their receptacles. When replacing the screw, secure it gen- tly.

Do not force or over-tighten it. PlayhaveGame Right Away After

you installed the batteries, the display will show the chess board with all the pieces on their starting squares. The LCD will also show "01 CHESS." This indicates you are at the first move of the game and ready to play chess. If it doesn't display "01 CHESS," press MODE and then NEW GAME.

Unless you instruct it otherwise, LCD Chess gives you the White pieces—the ones at the bottom of the board. White always moves first. (For the complete rules of chess, see the Let’s Play Chess brochure included in this package.) You’re ready to play!

Make your first move with your choice of two methods. In both methods, it’s very important to understand that making a move is made up of two parts, choosing a from square and a to square.

	English
Moving with the	Note: Press MODE twice and it
DIRECTION rocker	will act as a “clear” key. For
The first method makes the most of	example, use it to stop a square
the central, DIRECTION rocker.	from flashing in #3 above.
The eight- direction rocker button	4. Push the OPTIONS/MOVE but-
may be difficult to use at first. It is	ton again to finalize your move.
different from some video game
controllers because it allows diago-	The second method of moving uses
nal movement.	the DIRECTION rocker in only
For up, down, left and right move-	one step (2).
ments, it helps if you push the but-	Moving with
ton straight out away from the cen-	the NEXT PIECE
ter of the rocker. Do not press in the	and LAST PIECE KEYS
center of the rocker, because you	1. Select the piece you want to
may cause a diagonal movement to	move by pressing the NEXT
occur.	PIECE or LAST PIECE key until
1. Push the DIRECTION rocker in	the piece you want to move flashes.
	2. Then use the center DIREC-
any direction and the White
queen’s rook (the piece on the bot-	TION rocker button to move the
tom, left) will flash on and off. The	flashing piece where you want it.
top of the display will read "01	3. Finally, press the MOVE key to
FROM." Then move the circular	register your move.
rocker button—to the right, left, or	After you make your move, LCD
diagonally—until the piece or
pawn you want to move flashes on	Chess will reply with its move
and off.	automatically. You’ll see the piece
2. Push the OPTIONS/MOVE but-	flash on its from square and move
	to its to square. Throughout the
ton immediately above the circular	game, the display at top keeps track
DIRECTION rocker.	of the move number and the
3. Push the DIRECTION rocker to	elapsed time for each move.
move the piece to the square you	Pla ing the Black Pieces
want. You’ll see your piece flashing	When you want to play the Black

Excalibur’s LCD Chess is designed so

that it can be held.comfortably and used with one hand

2

on possible to squares as you move	pieces (to let LCD Chess move
it—at the same time it continues to	first) press the MOVE button twice
flash on its from square.	3 before you make your first move as