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procedure above. Then press TAKE BACK again to cancel your own move. If
you have already pressed the square the computer wants to move from and it is
showing what square it wants to move to, then press TAKE BACK once to cancel
the computer’s move, and then a second time to cancel your own.
If you want to cancel two moves, press TAKE BACK a third time to cancel the
computer’s move before last. Then press TAKE BACK a fourth time to cancel your
move before last. If you want to cancel any more moves, the computer will sound
the error signal. If you want to cancel more than two moves, you must use the
SET UP function to change the position of chessmen on the board (see paragraph
XIX).
XV. ‘HINT’ FUNCTION
To ask the computer to tell you what move it would make in your place:
1. Press HINT.
2. The computer will illuminate the coordinates of the square it suggests you
move from. Press this square (or press HINT again).
3. The computer will then illuminate the coordinates of the square it suggests
you move to. Press this square (or, again, press HINT).
4. You can then make the move the computer has suggested by pressing the
squares you are moving from and to again. Or, if you don’t want to take
its advice, you can make a different move.
The move the computer shows you is that which it would make in your place.
Each time it’s your turn and you think about the move you are going to make, the
computer has already thought about what its response will be. If you make the
move it is expecting, it will usually make its next move immediately.
In order to follow the thoughts of the computer as it analyses a position:
1. Press HINT while the computer is thinking and light 8 is flashing.
2. The computer will illuminate the coordinates of the square it is thinking of
moving from at that moment. Press that square (or press HINT again).
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