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Create New Game Create New Game allows you to choose from the 3 game modes. 1. Local Play Mode: Lets you play against the device or against an opponent locally. 2. Play With Contacts: Lets you play against your address book contacts by following a simple registration procedure. 3. Play With Community: Lets you play against players anywhere in the world by following a simple registration procedure. Local Play Mode In Local Play Mode, you can select between Device and Pass & Play. Tap on to make a selection. Playing Against Device To play against the device, Select your coin color as Black or White. Next, set the Engine Strength between 4 and 120 seconds. In the screenshot above, the response time chosen is 10 seconds. Pass & Play In Pass & Play Mode, you can play against a human player. To get started, enter the opponent's name in the space provided. Choose the Flip Type by tapping on . 1. No Flip: Makes the board remain stationary after a move 2. Coins Flip: Flips the coins after a player makes his move 3. Board Flip: Flips the entire board after a player makes his move Play with Community Play With Community mode lets you challenge Chess Elite players anywhere in the world. To begin, register by entering your email address and password. Select any opponent from around the world who has registered with us to send a challenge request. Play with Contacts To play with any of the contacts in your phonebook, register yourself with 99Games by tapping on New Registration and entering your email id and password. Next, send an invite to the phonebook contact you want to play with. Game Status The two options available in the Game Status are: 1. Local 2. Online Local Game Status lets you see all the games in progress and shift between them to play multiple boards at a time. Online Game Status lists all the challenges received, challenges sent and moves made. The game can continue as long as one of the players makes a move every 14 days. Replay & watch Replay & Watch lets you watch and review all the games that you have won and lost. Just choose the game you want to watch and hit Play to see how the game progressed. Settings Settings lets you view and edit the game settings. You can change the look of the board, turn off the sound or Legal Moves indicator if you want and choose not to highlight the last move. The default settings look like this: Settings can be accessed from within a game by tapping on Toolbar The Toolbar at the bottom of the screen lets you undo or redo a move. Use option to get a hint on your next move. You can also choose to forfeit the game by tapping on which will delete the game from the application’s memory. Engine Strength The Engine Strength determines how well the device plays. As you increase the Engine Strength, the time taken by the device to respond increases and it will be able to analyze its moves better. This will increase the difficulty in beating the device. Turn Indicator The Turn Indicator at the top of the screen shows who is supposed to make the next move, ‘White’ or ‘Black’. Push Notification Push Notification alerts you when you receive a new challenge request. This enables you to know that a challenge has been received directly from the main menu. Notifications will be displayed on the App icon in case you have quit the App. You also receive a Push Notification in case the player you’re playing against makes a move in an online game. Note: Push Notification works only if you have logged into your account and enabled Push Notification in the device settings.

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Send a challenge To send a Challenge Request, Go to ‘Play with Community’ and login by entering your email id and password. The list of players who have registered with us will appear. When you hit the Challenge button, a notification will be sent to the player and the challenge request will then appear under ‘Challenges Sent (awaiting response)’ in your Game Status screen. If the player accepts your challenge, a notification will appear on your Game Status screen stating that the challenge has been accepted. Next, the player with the white coins (‘My Turn’) must make a move to start the game. If the Challenge is ‘declined’ then it is removed from the ‘Challenges Sent (awaiting response)’ list. Note: A Challenge request expires if not accepted within 7 days. Receive a challenge To accept a Challenge, Go to ‘Play with Community’ and login by entering your email id and password. Next go to the Game Status page and tap on the ‘online’ tab, the Challenges Received will appear on the screen. Tap on the check/cross mark to accept/decline a challenge. If you choose to accept, the Challenger will be notified and the request will disappear from your screen. The game will appear in the ‘My Turn’ or ‘Opponent's Turn’ section when the challenger responds to the Challenge accepted notification. Next, the player with the white coins (‘My Turn’) must make a move to start the game. Note: A Challenge request expires if not accepted within 7 days. Move a piece To move a piece just tap on it, lift your finger and then tap on the destination square where you want to place it. An alternate way of moving the pieces is by dragging the piece with your finger and dropping it where you want to place it. Adjust engine strength To adjust the engine strength, select Local Play mode and then choose Playing Against Device option. Set the engine strength by dragging the slider. The strength will be updated as you drag. Pick an opponent in local play Go to the Create New Game option in the main menu and choose Local Play mode. Tap on to choose between the device and human player. Play with contacts Play With Contacts mode lets you play against your address book contacts by following a simple registration procedure. To begin, tap on New Registration and register by entering your email address and password. Next, select an opponent from your address book to send an invite if the opponent is not registered. The invite must be accepted within 7 days. In case the opponent has already registered, you can directly send a challenge request. Play with community To play with any of the players around the world who have registered with us, register yourself with 99Games by tapping on New Registration and entering your email id and password. Next send a challenge request to any player around the world and check for a response notification on the Game Status screen. If the player accepts your challenge request, you will receive a notification of the same on your Game Status screen. Change the theme To change the look of the board and coins, choose from the various themes available. Go to Settings in the main menu and select Chess Board option. Now tap on any one of the 9 themes to select it. Highlight last move To highlight the last move made, go to Settings and switch on the Highlight Last Move option. Get a hint To get a hint for your next move, tap on in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, and the next best possible move will be highlighted. Undo a move To undo a move, tap on in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. This option lets you undo as many moves as you want. Using this option, removes the last two moves from the board. Redo a move To redo a move, tap on in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. This option lets you redo as many moves as you want. Using this option puts back the last two moves on the board. Start a new game To start a new game, select Create New Game from the main menu and click on the mode you want to play in. View game status To view the game status, select the Game Status option from the main menu. You can view the list of current local games being played and also the Challenges sent and received online. Watch a game again To watch the replay of the games played, select the Replay and Watch option. The list of all the saved games will appear and you can choose any one of them to watch again. Hit Play to see how the game progressed. Check whose turn it is To keep track of which player has to make the next move, watch the turn indicator at the top left corner of the screen. The turn indicator shows who is supposed to make the next move, ‘White’ or ‘Black'. Flip the board after a move To enable rotation of the board after a move, select Create New Game option from the main menu and go to Local Play mode in it. Selecting Pass & Play option here will allow you to choose the flip type. Choose Board Flip to rotate the board after a move. Flip the coins after a move To enable rotation of the coins after a move, select Create New Game option from the main menu and go to Local Play Mode in it. Selecting Pass & Play option here will allow you to choose the flip type. Choose Coins Flip to rotate the coins after a move. Check for updates The Online Game Status can be checked from within the game. Just tap on the Update button on the top right corner of the screen to check the Online Challenges received and sent. Forfeit a game To forfeit a game, tap on in the toolbar and then click on OK. The particular game would then be listed under Games Lost.