Chapter 4: Getting A Rating At The Round Table; Viewing Your Rating; Submitting A Game For Rating; Check - Excalibur king Arthur 915-W User Manual

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CHAPTER 4:
GETTING A RATING AT
THE ROUND TABLE
4.1

Viewing your rating

Press the key to view
your current rating. But under-
RATING
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 or . When
-
you finish such a game, King
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Arthur will confirm that it is eli-
gible for rating by displaying a
"0" symbol.
To enter a game for rating,
immediately after finishing it,
simply press the key and
RATING
then press the appropriate key:
, , or , depending
on your result in the game.
WIN DRAW LOSS
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 updat-
ing your rating, you must press
the key and then the
NEW GAME key to register your win.
The "0" symbol will remain on,
RATING
even when
pressed.
NEW GAME
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
game sends your rating up 200
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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 that you've won, increase
SPECIAL MESSAGES
General-information
is
5.1
messages

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."
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.
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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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