Questions about the Setting Up the Board poster

What’s on the Setting Up the Board poster?

5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Two rules prevent every setup mistake. Orient the board — A light square in the bottom-right corner for both players.; Rooks in the corners — a1, h1, a8, h8.; Knights beside them — b1, g1, b8, g8.; Bishops next — c1, f1, c8, f8.; Queen on her own colour — White queen on d1 (light), black queen on d8 (dark). King t…. Kings face each other on the e-file; queens face each other on the d-file. If they do not, the queens and kings are swapped.

Who is the Setting Up the Board poster for?

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

When should you use the Setting Up the Board poster?

White square on the right. Queen on her own colour. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Setting Up the Board belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Setting Up the Board?

Check, Mate & Stalemate, Chess Clocks and Ways a Game Can Be Drawn sit alongside Setting Up the Board in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Check, Mate & StalemateChess ClocksWays a Game Can Be Drawn

Is the Setting Up the Board poster free to download and print?

Yes. Setting Up the Board 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 Setting Up the Board poster print at?

Setting Up the Board 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 Setting Up the Board loses nothing.Printing guide