T
ouch Chess
II
Operating Manual
Model 404ET
Congratulations on your purchase of
Excalibur Electronics’
T
ouch Chess!
Y
ou’ve purchased both your own person-
al chess trainer and a partner who’
s
always ready for a game—and who can
improve as you do!
Inst
all the Batteries
Using a small Phillips screwdriver
,
remove the battery-compartment panel
screw on the back of
T
ouch Chess.
Install two fresh, alkaline
AAA
batteries,
making sure to follow the diagram in
each battery slot so that the
polarity (+ or
-) of the batteries is correct.
Replace the battery compartment panel.
When replacing the screw
, secure it gen-
tly
, do not force or over
-tighten it.
Play a Game Right
A
way
After you have installed the batteries, the
display will show the chess board with all
the pieces on their starting squares.
The
LCD will also show
00
11
C
H
E
S
S
. This
indicates you are at the first move of the
game and ready to play chess. If it does
not display
00
11
C
H
E
S
S
, press
RESET
using a thin pointed object.
Unless you instruct it otherwise,
Touch
Chess gives you the
White pieces
—
the
ones at the bottom of the board.
White
always moves first.
Y
ou’re ready to play!
Besides deciding on a good move, you
have to move the piece in a way that
Touch Chess will recognize what's been
played.
Think of communicating your
move as a two-step process--registering
the
FROM
square and then registering the
TO
square.
Press the stylus down gently on the cen-
ter of the piece on the
FROM
square.
Touch Chess will display the coordinates
of the
FROM
square-for example "E2."
Then press the stylus down gently on the
IMPORT
ANT
NOTE:
When you ar
e in check, you
have very few moves. If you find
you can’t select the move you
want to make, look for
the ‘+’
check sign.
Y
ou pr
obably forgot
you ar
e in check.
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