Changing Levels Of Play; Display Options; Forcing King Arthur To Move Immediately; Getting Hints - Excalibur king Arthur 915-W User Manual

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to the original move, you can
press the key to replay the
MOVE move or moves.
TAKENBACK
3.7

Changing levels of play

You can change levels by
pressing the key to
increase the level one at a time. LEVEL
Pressing the > key increases the
level by 10. Pressing the < key
decreases the level by 10. (See
chapter 7 for a full explanation
of levels.)
3.8

Display options

You have quite a choice of
information that King Arthur
will display for you. All of these
options are made available by
pressing the key until
they are displayed. Then press >
OPTION
to turn these options or
Press the key to exit
ON OFF
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OPTION
Displaying total
game time used:
Your King Arthur normally
shows the time taken for each
move. With the "TotAL" option,
you can instead choose to have
the total game time displayed.
Displaying
the position score:
Your display normally shows
the number of the current move.
If instead you want to display
the piece-score of your current
position to see quickly who's
ahead in material, turn on the
"SCORE" option. The score
option totals the following val-
ues: Pawns—1, Knights—3,
Bishops—3, Rooks—5, and
Queen—9.
3.9
Forcing King Arthur
to move immediately
To interrupt King Arthur while
he's thinking and make him
move immediately, press the
key. King Arthur will
.
MOVE make the best move he's found
so far. This feature can be very
useful on higher levels, when
King Arthur may take a while
thinking about his moves.
3.3

Getting Hints

If you don't know which
move to make, or you simply
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want to see what King Arthur
would recommend, press
and the display will show you HINT
the move King Arthur believes
to be best.
To show all legal moves for a
selected piece, press the
button until is displayed.
OPTION
Press the HELP > key to turn on
the option. The display will
MOVE
show . Exit mode
by pressing .
HELP OPTION
/
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3.11

Displaying threats

King Arthur will tell you when
there is a serious threat by dis-
playing the "!" sign. (See also
Section 5.4.) When this hap-
pens, you can push the
key, and King Arthur will flash
THREAT
the threatening move.
3.12
Peeking into
King Arthur's brain
on higher levels
At levels 6 and above, you can
actually see what King Arthur is
"thinking." Press until
"InFO" is displayed. Turn this OPTION
option on by pressing > or <.
Exit mode by pressing
.
OPTION
/
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When turned on, this option
, will display the score, depth of
search (number of moves King
Arthur is "thinking ahead"), best
move he is considering, and
clock times. These will be dis-
played while the computer is
thinking at its higher levels.
3.13

Replaying a variation

This feature is used best when
playing without the physical
pieces (See 3.5, above.) When
you want to take back a whole
series of moves, press
. King Arthur will AUTO
take back all moves in his mem-
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ory. If you change your mind,
you can replay the entire string
of moves by immediately press-
ing . (When "rPLAY" is no
longer shown on the display, the
MOVE
last move of the variation has
been reached.)
3.14

Practicing blindfold chess

Very good players sometimes
amaze people by playing with-
out looking at the pieces and
board. King Arthur gives you a
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then