Chapter 4: Getting A Rating At The Round Table; Viewing Your Rating; Submitting A Game For Rating; Chapter 5: Special Messages From Camelot - Excalibur King Arthur 915-3 Operating Manual

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KING ARTHUR
CHAPTER 4:
GETTING A RATING AT
THE ROUND TABLE
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 eligible for rating by display-
ing 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 updating your rating, you
must press the NEW GAME key
and then the RATING key to
register your win. The "0" sym-
bol 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
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game sends your rating up 200
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
KING ARTHUR
CHAPTER 5:
SPECIAL MESSAGES
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."
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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.
FROM CAMELOT

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
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