Lexibook CG1300 User Manual

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If you press MOVE again, the computer will move again, so you can make the

computer play alone, against itself.

If you want to play the whole game as Black:

1. Press NEW GAME and place the white pieces at the top of the chessboard

and the black ones at the bottom. Remember that the White Queen always

starts on a white square and the Black Queen on a black square.

2. Then press MOVE to start the game. The computer will move a white

piece at the top of the chessboard and will wait for you to move with the

black pieces at the bottom.

XIV. CANCELLING MOVES

If you press the square from which you want to move a piece, but you decide in

the end that you want to make a different move, press the square again. The lights

indicating the coordinates of the square will come on and you can make another

move.
If you have made your move and the computer is thinking, or has already

illuminated the coordinates of the square it’s going to move from:

1. Press TAKE BACK.

2. The computer will then interrupt it’s thinking and illuminate the lights of

the square you last moved to. Press the square and pick up the piece.

3. The computer will then indicate the coordinates of the square you moved

from. Press this square and put the piece back on it.

4. If you want to cancel a capture or a capture en passant, the computer will

remind you to reinstate the captured piece on the chessboard by indicating

the coordinates of the square where the piece was. Press this square and

replace the piece on the chessboard.

5. If you cancel after you have castled, you must first replace your King, then

your Castle by pressing the squares of each.

6. If you cancel the promotion of a pawn, don’t forget to change your Queen

back to a pawn.

If you want to cancel your move, but you have already carried out the computer’s

next move, press TAKE BACK and cancel the computer’s move following the

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