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Excalibur King Arthur question about + Check.

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Excalibur King Arthur question about + Check.

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July 10th 03, 05:23 AM

Chris Kantack

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Excalibur King Arthur question about + Check.

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I recently just started playing chess.
My question deals with the Excalibur King Arthur chess system.
Upon playing this game- I was checked. I had 2 remaining pieces with
no moves availble. I was left with a King and Pawn. Each time I went
to move the King I was checked.This was also indicated by a "X" on the
screen. As I had no available moves anywhere, the game was essentially
over. However the game never said mate, check mate or anything to
indicate end of game. SHould the game have said anything to show end?
or was the + sufficent. Thank you.
Raddd

It is very, very, rare. But I have seen a couple of cases where King
Arthur (as best as I could tell), overlooked making the "mate" designation.
Now this is after playing literally hundreds and hundreds of games on King
Arthur and similar units. Even I confess, that perhaps I overlooked a move
on some of the games.

All in all, King Arthur is a pretty darn good reliable program. But keep
in mind the processor and memory of the King Arthur unit are only a few
kilobytes.

My review of King Arthur can be found at:

http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/l...kingarthur.htm

My LCD Chess home page link is:

http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/home.htm

Thanks,
Chris

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