4.1
Viewing your rating
Press the
RATING
key to view
your current rating. But under-
stand that your rating won’t
change until you “submit”
games to the Round Table for
rating.
4.2
Submitting a game
for rating
Like any official tournament
game, to be eligible for rating,
your game must be played with
no
HINTS
or
TAKE
-
BACKS
. When
you finish such a game, King
Arthur will confirm that it is eli-
gible for rating by displaying a
“
0
” symbol.
To enter a game for rating,
immediately after finishing it,
simply press the
RATING
key and
then press the appropriate key:
WIN
,
DRAW
, or
LOSS
, depending
on your result in the game.
That’s all there is to it. King
Arthur will automatically adjust
your rating. However, when you
checkmate King Arthur, he will
display “
LOSE
.” Before updat-
ing your rating, you must press
the
NEW GAME
key and then the
RATING
key to register your win.
The “
0
” symbol will remain on,
even when
NEW
GAME
is
pressed.
Arthur weighs your first three
rated games the most heavily in
order to establish a rough esti-
mate of your strength quickly.
Winning your first rated game
increases your rating by 300
points. Winning your second
game sends your rating up 200
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CHAPTER 4:
GETTING A RATING AT
THE ROUND TABLE
points. You get 100 points for
winning your third rated game.
After that, rating adjustments
are more modest.
On any given level, you can-
not improve your rating by
more than 400 points. When
you notice that your rating does
not go up when you submit a
game that you’ve won, increase
your playing level by 10 when
you play rated games. King
Arthur is telling you that you’ve
improved and you need to move
up to a tougher level of play!
King Arthur will send you
helpful messages while you
play.
KING ARTHUR
CHAPTER 5:
SPECIAL MESSAGES
FROM CAMELOT
General-information
messages
5.1
Check
When you are in check, King
Arthur will alert you by display-
ing a “
+
” sign.
5.2
Ratable Game
When a game is ratable (see
Chapter 4), King Arthur will
display a “
0
.”
5.3
Two-player mode
To remind you when you are
in two-player (human versus
human) mode (see 3.17, above),
“
=
” will be displayed.
5.4
Threat
King Arthur will tell you
when there is a serious threat by
displaying the “
!
” sign. (See
also Section 3.11.) When this
