User manual ESCALADE SPORTS G05201(021704)

[. . . ] We strive to ensure that our products are of the highest quality and free of manufacturing defects or missing parts. However, if you have any problems with your new product, DO NOT RETURN IT TO THE STORE, please contact us toll free @: 1-866-556-2759 FAX: 1-866-873-3531 foosball@escaladesports. com Or write to: Escalade Sports Customer Service Department P. O. Box 889 Evansville IN 47706 Please have your model number when inquiring about parts. When contacting Escalade Sports please provide your model number, serial number (if applicable), and part number if requesting a replacement part. These numbers are located on the product, packaging, and in this owners manual. [. . . ] If you commit a second offense, you forfeit the game. You must make your move within five minutes, if you fail to move, an appointed time-keeper will call "time". You then have one minute to make you move or you forfeit the game. © 2004 Escalade Sports 22 For Customer Service Call 1-866-556-2759 CHESS Chess is a game played by two players. One player plays with the white pieces and the other player plays with the black pieces. Each player has sixteen pieces in the beginning of the game: One King, One Queen, two Rooks, two Bishops, two Knights, and eight Pawns. The game is played on a chessboard, consisting of 64 squares: eight rows and eight columns. The squares are alternately light (white) and dark colored. The board must be laid down such that there is a black square in the lower-left corner. To facilitate notation of moves, all squares are given a name. From the view of the white player, the rows are numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8; the lowest row has number 1, and the upper row has number 8. The columns are named, from left to right, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h. A square gets a name, consisting of the combination of its column-letter and row-number, e. g. , the square in the lower left corner (for white) is a1. Alternately, the players make a move, starting with the white player (the player that plays with the white pieces. ) A move consists of moving one of the pieces of the player to a different square, following the rules of movement for that piece - there is one special exception, named castling, where players move two pieces simultaneously. A player can take a piece of the opponent by moving one of his own pieces to the square that contains a piece of the opponent. The opponents piece then is removed from the board, and out of play for the rest of the game. (Taking is not compulsory. ) At the start of the game, the position of the pieces is as follows. Thus, at the second row, there are eight white pawns, at the seventh row, there are eight black pawns. At the first row, from left to right, we have a: rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and rook. Note that the queens start of squares of their own color, with a dark square in each players left hand corner. Movement of the pieces Rook The rook moves in a straight line, horizontally or vertically. The rook may not jump over other pieces, that is: all squares between the square where the rook starts its move and where the rook ends its move must be empty. (As for all pieces, when the square where the rook ends his move contains a piece of the opponent, then this piece is taken. The square where the rook ends his move may not contain a piece of the player owning this rook. ) Bishop The bishop moves in a straight diagonal line. [. . . ] Win a Point If the opponent fails to return your shot. Your shot can hit the boundary lines (white lines) on your opponent's side or even the edge of the table and it is legal. Your serve can also hit the edge and it is legal. If you hit the ball off the table but it lands on you opponent's paddle before it touches the floor or wall. [. . . ]