PIECE SYMBOLS SHOWN IN THE DISPLAY
CAPTURING AND SPECIAL MOVES
To capture, press down on the square with the piece you want to move, take the captured piece off the board and
place it on its symbol in the border area. There is a sensor under each symbol in the boarder area which is also known
as the “Captured Piece Zone”. When placing a captured piece over a symbol you must also press the sensor. The
computer will beep when you have correctly placed a captured piece. It is important that you place the piece on the
correct location because the Mirage will expect it to be properly located. The Mirage is a very smart opponent and
will try to help you with piece placement whenever possible. If you were to capture, lets say, a black knight and press
it on the white bishop symbol the Mirage will actually take that wrongly placed piece and move it across the board
and place it in its correct captured piece location. When the Mirage captures a piece it will move your piece into the
correct location in the border area first and then move its piece into the square of the captured piece.
THE CHESS RULES
Remember that your computer knows the rules of the game, including the rules about castling, en passant captures,
pawn promotion and stalemate.
It will never break any of these rules.
Sometimes it may seem that the computer has made an irregular move. What may have happened is that you
accidentally made a mistake when entering a move, or you may have accidentally put one or more of the chess pieces
on the wrong square during the game. If this happens, you should verify the locations of all the pieces by using
“Verify Position” mode.
If you are in any doubt about the rules of chess you should take another look at U. S Chess
Federation’s “Let’s Play Chess” rules found in your box
.
EN PASSANT
For an “En Passant” capture, press the FROM and TO squares of the capturing pawn. The square of the pawn being
captured will then appear on the display. This is to remind you to remove the captured pawn. You must press down
on the captured pawn before removing it from the board.
C A S T L I N G
The computer automatically recognizes castling maneuvers after the King is moved two squares. After you have
pressed the King down on its
FROM
and
TO
squares, the Mirage’s display will remind you to press down on the
Rook’s
FROM
and
TO
squares to finish the move. Remember you must always move the King first when castling.
It is illegal to move the rook first. See U. S. Chess Federation’ s rules of chess if you do not fully understand the rules
for Castling.
Pawn Knight
Bishop
Queen Rook
King
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