LEXIBOOK Chessman FX CG1335 Bedienungsanleitung Seite 19

If you press , the computer will make a move. Thus if you want to change sides with the
computer, just press
you to move for the other side.
If you press again, the computer will move again, and in this way you can even let the
computer play the whole game by itself!
If you want to play the whole game with the black pieces:
1. Press and put all white pieces on the top of the board and black pieces on the bottom.
Remember that the white Queen is on a white square and the black Queen on the black square.
2. Press at the beginning of the game. The computer will make a move for white from the
top of the board, and expect you to play the black pieces from the bottom of the board.
If you press down on one of your pieces, but then decide not to move it after all, just press down on
the square once again. The computer will no longer light up the square of the piece, and you can
make a different move.
If you have already completed a move, and the computer is thinking about its reply, or has already
computed its reply and lighted up the FROM square of the reply, then do the following:
1. Press .
2. The computer stops thinking and instead lights up the TO square of your last move and then the
path to the FROM square of your last move. Press down on the square and pick up the piece.
3. The computer will then show the FROM square. Press on this square and put the piece back.
4. If the move was a capture or an en passant capture, the computer will remind you to replace the
captured piece by showing the square the captured piece was on. Press down on the square
and replace the piece on the board.
5. If you take back a castling, you must first take back the king move and then the rook move,
pressing the squares for both the king and the rook.
6. If you take back a pawn promotion, you must remember to change the queen back to a pawn.
If you want to take back your move after you have already made the computer's move on the
board, you must first press
described above, and then press
already pressed the FROM square of the computer's reply and the computer is showing the TO
square, you must first carry out the computer's move in the normal manner, then press the TAKE
BACK key and take back the computer's move, and finally press
own move.
If you want to take back more than one move, press
computer's second last move. Then key again
If you try to take back more moves, the computer will give an error signal. You must instead take
back the moves by changing the position (see SET-UP position later).
To get advice on which piece to move:
1. Press .
2. The computer will light up the FROM square and the squares of the move it suggests
you make.
3. You can now make the suggested move by pressing the FROM and TO squares again, or you
can make a different move instead.
The move shown is the move the computer expects you to make. When it is your turn to move and
you are considering your move, the computer is also thinking about its reply! If you actually make
XIV. CHANGING COLOUR
while it is your turn. The computer will make a move, and expect
XV. TAKING BACK MOVES
and take back the computer's move in the same way as
once more, and take back your own move. If you have
XVI. HINT
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again and take back your
once more, and take back the
, and take back your own second last move.