User manual SAITEK COSMOS

[. . . ] PIECE STORAGE AREA: For piece storage and captured pieces. Uses four "AA" (AM3/R6) alkaline batteries. SENSORY CHESSBOARD: Each square contains a sensor that automatically registers piece movement. Certain squares can also be pressed to select playing levels and game options. [. . . ] You'd love to know what move he's thinking about, and you'd really like to get his opinion of the 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 get an incredible amount of information about the computer's thought process. On request, it will show you the move it's thinking of, the line of play it expects after that move, its evaluation of the current board position, how deeply it is searching, and more. As you can imagine, studying this information can help you learn so much more about chess! Using Info Mode How do you access all this game information?If you do this while the computer is thinking, you'll see the information displays change as the computer considers different moves and searches deeper! PRINCIPAL VARIATION INFO: x1 · Move 1 (predicted line of play) · Move 2 (predicted line of play) · Move 3 (predicted line of play) TE · Move 4 (predicted line of play) · Move 5 (predicted line of play) L B · Move 6 (predicted line of play) I NF O SEARCH INFO: x2 · Evaluation of current position · 2 numbers: Search depth + number TE of moves examined so far · Current move under consideration · Positions searched per second BL AC AC K K INF O CHESS CLOCK INFO: x3 See "INFO MODE AT A GLANCE!" for a chart summarizing all the Info Mode displays. Game information is divided into four groups, and pressing INFO cycles from one group to another. The BLACK/+ and WHITE/­ keys can be used to cycle forward and backward respectively the displays within each of the groups. Press CLEAR to exit Info Mode and go back to showing the normal chess clock. After learning about Info Mode, take a look at Section 5. 3 for a description of the Rotating Display feature. Selecting this feature makes the computer automatically cycle through the requested information in one-second intervals every time it thinks about its move--you can actually watch the computer think out loud!Whenever requested information is not available, the display will show dashes (­ ­ ­ ­ ­). 4. 1 Principal Variation Press INFO the first time to get information on the principal variation 10 · Elapsed time since last move · Total elapsed time for White TE · Total elapsed time for Black · Remaining time for White* · Remaining time for Black* BL I INF O AC K MOVE COUNT INFO: WH WH WH I I *Blitz/Tournament Levels only x4 INF · Current move number made so far WH O TE BL CL Press E AR at any time to exit Info Mode. For more details, see Section 4. AC K I · Moves of the current game (the predicted line of play, or the sequence of moves the computer thinks will be made). The first display you will see is the move the computer is currently thinking of making. Notice that the move is shown in the display, and the lights for the from and to squares for that move also flash alternately. This principal variation is shown to a maximum depth of six individual moves. Press BLACK/+ repeatedly to cycle forwards all the moves: · Move 1 (predicted line of play) · Move 2 (predicted line of play) · Move 3 (predicted line of play) · Move 4 (predicted line of play) · Move 5 (predicted line of play) · Move 6 (predicted line of play) Press WHITE/­ to back up and see previous displays again. Press CLEAR to return to the normal clock display. Since the first move of the predicted line of play is the move the computer assumes you will make, you can also consider this move as a hint!So--whenever you need help, press INFO on your turn!4. 2 Search Information Press INFO a second time to get information on the computer's search!Press BLACK/+ repeatedly to cycle forwards the four displays: · Evaluation of the current position (based on a pawn being worth 1. 0 points; a positive number indicates White is ahead) · Two numbers: The first is the current search depth, or the number of individual moves the computer is looking ahead; the second is the number of moves the computer has examined so far · The move currently being considered · The search speed, or number of positions (nodes) being searched every second Press WHITE/­ to cycle backwards and see previous displays again. [. . . ] Press CLEAR again to exit Position Mode. · To clear the board, press ENTER once more; to cancel, press CLEAR (see Section 6. 2). · Verify the position (see Section 6. 1). · Replace the batteries with fresh alkalines. [. . . ]