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Electronic Talking Chess Board Set
K698
Instructions for Use
Please read and retain these instructions for future reference v001: 16/03/22
Page No. 7
Errors : In Chess, if you try to play an illegal move, the computer will say “That move is not legal.” You can
then press WHY? for an explanation, e.g. “You are not allowed to castle king’s side, because the king has
moved.” Other errors are indicated by a
buzz. If the co-ordinates are cleared from the bottom line, start your
move again.
The rules of the best known (but most complicated) games, i.e. Chess, Checkers and Reversi, are explained in
the Appendix (Section Number 8). The rules of the other games are incorporated in Section Number 5.5 -
5.9.
5.2 CHESS
5.2.1 Selecting the mode
After selecting CHESS from the list of game types (Section Number 4), you can press ↑ or ↓ repeatedly to
view the “Chess modes”:
NORMAL (rate of play initially set to 10 seconds/move) see Section Number 5.2.2 etc.
RAPID 30 (rapid play: 30 minutes per player per game) see Section Number 5.2.4
RAPID 25 (rapid play: 25 minutes per player per game) see Section Number 5.2.4
BLITZ 5 (blitz Chess: 5 minutes per player per game) see Section Number 5.2.4
RATED (rated game: points awarded for the user’s moves) see Section Number 5.2.6
EXERCISE see Section Number 5.2.8
MT. IN 2 (computer searches for mate in 2 moves) see Section Number 5.2.7
(play with kings and pawns only) see Section Number 5.2.5
(play with kings, knights and pawns only) see Section Number 5.2.5
(play with kings, bishops and pawns only) see Section Number 5.2.5
(play with kings, rooks and pawns only) see Section Number 5.2.5
(play with kings, queens and pawns only) see Section Number 5.2.5
To select a mode, display it and press ENTER. (Instead, ESC returns to the list of game types
– Section
Number 4.) We suggest that for your first games you select NORMAL.
5.2.2 Making moves
To carry out your move, press the squares you are moving from and to . Similarly for the computer’s move:
press the “from” and “to” squares which are shown “blinking” on the LCD.
If you press one of your pieces then press LEGAL, the computer shows you all the moves that this piece can
legally make. The destination squares are indicated, one after the other, by the “+” sign.
In the
bottom line, a “ + ” sign means you are in check.
While the computer is displaying its own move, the Main Menu (Section Number 3) can be accessed and
contains an extra item: EVALUATE. By selecting this item you can see an assessment of the position, e.g.
192 The computer thinks it has an advantage worth nearly 2 pawns.
-54 It has a disadvantage worth a little more than half a pawn.