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Excalibur Kingmaster lll Electronic Chess/Checkers Double your fun with two games in one. Now you can enjoy an exciting game of chess or checkers in one electronic game. With an even larger interactive LCD display, over 72 levels of chess and 16 levels of checkers, King Arthur is challenging and entertaining for players of all strengths or you can match your skills against the game’s computer chip. Excalibur’s exclusive, five-step teaching mode helps anyone improve his or her game. Includes LCD window, piece-storage compartment, and magnetic sensory board.

Features:

• Estimated rating: 1750
• Magnetic chess pieces
• Save game in memory
• Piece-storage compartment

Requires 4 “AA” alkaline batteries (not included).
Customer Review: Good for learning and training
I bought the tabletop checkers and chess computer King Master III. In my judgement it plays chess at about 1500 Elo, but its checkers program is stronger. It’s good training for the average checkers club player, I believe. In checkers, it makes only one theoretical move towards the centre, then it starts to think. One can always take back that move and make another, if one wants greater variety. One must allow it 15 seconds or more, I think. Strategically (in checkers) it has the usual tendency to conquer space on the flanks instead of the centre, so one can often get a positional advantage. But, of course, that doesn’t mean that the game is won. But it tries to develop the single corner piece.