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LCD Chess
and Checkers
Operating Manual
Model 375-2
Congratulations on your purchase of
Excalibur Electronics' innovative LCD
Chess & Checkers! You've purchased a
partner who's always ready for a game—
and who can improve as you do!
Install the Batteries
Using a small Phillips screwdriver,
remove the battery-compartment panel
screw on the back of LCD Chess. Then
remove the panel by pulling gently from
the top. Install three fresh, alkaline AAA
batteries, making sure to follow the dia-
gram in each battery slot so that the polar-
ity (+ or -) of the batteries is correct.
Replace the battery compartment panel.
Excalibur's LCD
Chess is designed so
that it can be held
comfortably and
used with one
hand.
When replacing the screw, secure it gen-
tly. Do not force or over-tighten it.
Play a Chess Game
Right Away
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
CHESS. This
indicates you are at the first move of the
01
game and ready to play chess. If it does
not display
CHESS, press RESET
using a thin pointed object.
01
Unless you instruct it otherwise, LCD
Chess gives you the White pieces—the
ones at the bottom of the board. White
always moves first. A white box on the
display ( ) indicates it's White's move.
You're ready to play!
In making your first move, it's very
important to understand that a move is
made up of two parts, choosing a from
square and a to square.
The eight-direction rocker button may be
difficult to use at first. It is different from
some video game controllers because it
allows diagonal movement.
For up, down, left and right movements,
it helps if you push the button straight out
away from the center of the rocker. Do
not press in the center of the rocker,
because you may cause a diagonal move-
ment to occur.
1. Push the DIRECTION rocker in any
direction and the White king's pawn (the
pawn in front of the king) will flash on
and off. The LCD will also show
FrOm. Then move the circular rocker
button—to the right, left, or diagonally—
01
until the piece or pawn you want to move
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Summary of Contents for Excalibur 375-2
- Page 1 Congratulations on your purchase of not display CHESS, press RESET using a thin pointed object. Excalibur Electronics’ innovative LCD Chess & Checkers! You’ve purchased a Unless you instruct it otherwise, LCD partner who’s always ready for a game— Chess gives you the White pieces—the and who can improve as you do! ones at the bottom of the board.
- Page 2 Below are the features available to you Your Excalibur LCD Chess & Checkers is packed with features! through primary functions. Note: You may also use the 2nd/NEXT Each key has two labels. To activate the feature named below the key, Remember, to access any of these fea- key to select the piece you want to move.
- Page 3 SCOrE: Your display normally shows the to a queen is the most common, so it is Draw Messages the longer it will think during its moves. number of the current move. If instead During the game, your LCD Chess will The first four levels (1, 2, 3 and 4) are automatic.) You can also use this key to you want to see the piece-score of your...
- Page 4 key. Next to replay the variation and est chess games by pressing 2nd, then 12. Sicilian, Rossolimo Attack Anderssen was one of the most ingenious attackers of all time. After 18. Bd6, he gives return to your original position, set the 13.
- Page 5 But if Black can't take the rook—with either (gets his pieces off the back rank and into play) later and mate follows on the same square. 14. Boris Spassky vs. Tigran Petrosian, his king or queen—he loses in all variations. too slowly.
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Page 6: Using Setup Mode
Adding or Changing a Piece color is to move. When you first enter “Stalemate” and is considered a drawn counterattack in the center, which is the stan- dard antidote for an attack on the wing. The Press 2nd then the SETUP key. Now setup mode, you may change the color of game. - Page 7 To castle your King on LCD Chess, sim- Pawn is diagrammed below: king. A king can move, and jump, back- Checkers will reply with its move auto- ply move your King over two squares. ward as well as forward. A player can matically.
- Page 8 CLrBr: same as Chess (see page 4). Generally, the higher the level you select, positions you want to play, or that you Excalibur Electronics reserves the right to SOUnd:same as Chess (see page 4). the better your LCD Checkers will play,...
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Page 9: Battery Information
Battery Information Special Care • Avoid rough handling such as bumping or • Your LCD Chess uses 3 AAA batteries. dropping. • Do not mix old and new batteries. • Avoid moisture and extreme temperatures. • Do not mix alkaline & standard or For best results, use between the tempera- rechargeable batteries.