Questions about the Bishop Endgames poster

What’s on the Bishop Endgames poster?

Same-coloured against Opposite-coloured, side by side. Same-coloured: Play like a normal endgame; Same-coloured: Extra pawn usually wins; Same-coloured: Put your pawns on the OPPOSITE colour to your bishop; Same-coloured: Their pawns on your bishop's colour are targets; Opposite-coloured: Extremely drawish; Opposite-coloured: Two extra pawns may not win; Opposite-coloured: The defender blockades on his own colour; Opposite-coloured: In the middlegame they favour the ATTACKER; Opposite-coloured bishops draw endgames and sharpen middlegames. The same feature doe…. Wrong-coloured bishop: with a rook pawn whose queening square your bishop cannot control, it is drawn even with the pawn.

Who is the Bishop Endgames poster for?

Bishop Endgames belongs to the Chess section rather than to a school year, because games is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning endgames can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Bishop Endgames poster?

Opposite-coloured bishops are famously drawish, even two pawns down. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Bishop Endgames belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Bishop Endgames?

Fortresses, Basic Checkmates and King Activity sit alongside Bishop Endgames in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.FortressesBasic CheckmatesKing Activity

Is the Bishop Endgames poster free to download and print?

Yes. Bishop Endgames downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Chess section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Bishop Endgames poster print at?

Bishop Endgames is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Bishop Endgames loses nothing.Printing guide