Saitek Mephisto Touch Screen Travel Chess - Manual (Page 22)

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then show the next move to be taken back. You may continue to press
¯ to take back any number of moves, all the way back to the begin-
ning of the game, if desired. If you reach the beginning, the display
will show
End takebacks , and you’ll automatically be returned
to the Main Menu. Note that, as long as you don’t go back to the very
start of the game, you can always press
˘ to go forward through the
moves again, if desired. To resume your game at any point with the
current board position, press CLEAR and then MENU.
As a shortcut to entering Takeback Mode, you can also simply
press on the to square of the last move that was made. The display
will briefly show
TAKEBACK , and it will then show the last move that
was made. To take the move back, press ¯ . As above, repeated
presses of ¯ will take more moves back, if desired. To resume game
play at any point, press CLEAR.
7. INFO MODE: WATCH THE COMPUTER THINK!
Imagine this: You’re playing chess against a friend, and it’s his
move. You’d love to know what move he’s considering and you’d really
like his opinion of the current board position. But, of course, you won’t
ask—because that’s just not done! Well, guess what—when you play
against this chess computer, you can ask anything you want,
and
you’ll get all the answers! In fact, you can obtain an incredible amount
of information about the computer’s thought process, and studying
this information can help you learn so much more about the game!
You may access game information at any time via Info Mode. As
described below, you can call up this information manually by press-
ing HINT/INFO, or you can select Info Mode options to be displayed
automatically, every time the computer is considering its next move.
Automatic Info Displays
Activating any or all of the following Info Mode options causes the
computer to automatically display that information every time it thinks
about its move—you can actually watch the computer “think out loud”!
Important: Info Mode options selected for automatic display
are only activated while the computer is thinking!
Press MENU to enter the Main Menu, and press ¯ repeatedly until
the display shows ¿INFO . Press ENTER to enter Info Mode, and
you’ll see the first of five options, as shown below. Pressing ¯ (or ˘ )
repeatedly cycles through these options, as follows: