Excalibur 750GT-2, Instruction Manual

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7. Slide the PAUSE/PLAY switch PLAY.
8. Black now presses his plunger to start your “White’s clock. This is very impor-
tant. Every move, including White’s first, must be counted! (Your clock’s move
counter relies on this rule.)
Watch your Kingside!
IMPORTANT NOTE: Your clock comes preset for a two-second delay for each move-
during SUDDEN time control. (For a discussion of the advantages of a delay, and how
to change this setting, see Chapter 4.) Your time elapsed display won’t change until the
delay period ticks down.
Two great features worth noticing
Once you’ve played your first game, you appreciate two “can’t believe-you-ever-got-
along-without-them” features of your new GameTime™:
• When you pressed your plunger to start the game, the DELAY indicator counted
down two seconds before my GameTime™ indicator actually began to count down.
This feature returns some fairness to sudden-death time controls. For example, if I
was down to my lone King and you had a Rook and King, the two-second delay
meant that I couldn’t steal the game by trying to run you out of time before you
could mate me. As long as you made a move within that two-second grace period,
you never lost time on your clock.
• When my time expired, a flag began to flash on my side of the display, and a red
light began to blink. I couldn’t wait for your flag to drop, too, and then shrug ingen-
uously as if I didn’t know who had really won.
Playing the next game…and the next
When you are ready to play a new game, level the PLUNGERS . Press the ON/OFF
button on the underside of the clock for a couple of seconds until the display clears, and
then press the
ON/OFF button again. The GameTime™ is already set to the last preset
time control you selected.
We are ready for a new game.
How about a nice CrossWORD game?
You must tell GameTime™ you want to use crossWORD game mode, so that it knows
to count-up the time once the main time has been used up. When in
WORD mode,
GameTime™ shows the overtime condition by turning on the appropriate players
FLAG . Some digital clocks that do not have a FLAG symbol, place a minus sign in
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