Saitek Travel Chess manual Additional Computer Features, Openings Coach, Chess Clocks

8. Openings Coach

Your computer has 16 opening sequences for you to study, such as the Italian Opening and the Queen’s Gambit. Press OPENINGS COACH, and then press one of the squares from A1 to B8 to select one of the openings. Press the square again to choose how much help you would like to get from the computer, and then press OPENINGS COACH once more to start practicing or to test your knowledge. For more details, see Section 3.12.

2. ADDITIONAL COMPUTER FEATURES

2.1 Chess Clocks

Built in chess clocks keep track of the time for your side and the computer’s side, with a four-digit display showing the total elapsed time or remaining time for each player alternately during his turn. After you have entered the computer’s move, the display shows your chess clock until a key or square is pressed, keeping track of your time until the to square is pressed. After you make your move, the display immediately switches to the computer’s clock while it thinks, until the computer indicates that it is ready to move.

Note that the computer may also display Coch after your move has been made, while it analyzes whether you have made a good move or a bad one. If it thinks your move is not good, it sounds two low tones.

For the first hour of the game, or whenever the remaining time is less than a hour, the display will show MINUTES:SECONDS, with a steady colon. If the total elapsed time exceeds one hour or the remaining time exceeds one hour, the display will show HOURS:MINUTES, and the colon will flash while the clock is showing.

Please also note the following:

•The clock stops if you verify the level, verify the board, or turn the computer off. In each of these cases, however, the times are retained in memory, and the clock display re- sumes when play is continued.

•The clock resets if you change the level or press a square while in Level Mode.

•When your King is in check, the display shows check alternately with the chess clock.

•If you are playing on a level which is against the clock, the clock counts down from your selected time to show time remaining. When the first clock reaches zero, three low tone ‘beeps’ will signal that time has run out. The clock will then begin counting time up from

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