What’s on the Coordination poster
A definition and 6 facts worth remembering.
Pieces coordinate when they defend one another, share targets, and control complementary squares. Uncoordinated pieces defend nothing and threaten nothing together.
- Batteries — queen and bishop, or doubled rooks — concentrate force.
- Pieces on the same diagonal, file or rank support each other.
- A piece defending another is doing two jobs at once.
- Undefended pieces are what tactics exploit.
- Improving your worst piece usually improves coordination most.
- Rooks belong on files where they will eventually matter.
- Battery — Q+B or R+R
- Check for — loose pieces
- Improve — worst piece
- Loose Pieces Drop Off: undefended pieces are the precondition for forks, pins and dou…
Before each move, note every undefended piece — yours and theirs. That single habit prevents and finds most tactics.
Questions about the Coordination poster
- What’s on the Coordination poster?
- A definition and 6 facts worth remembering. Pieces coordinate when they defend one another, share targets, and control complementary squares. Uncoordinated pieces defend nothing and threaten nothing together. Batteries — queen and bishop, or doubled rooks — concentrate force.; Pieces on the same diagonal, file or rank support each other.; A piece defending another is doing two jobs at once.; Undefended pieces are what tactics exploit.; Improving your worst piece usually improves coordination most.; Rooks belong on files where they will eventually matter.; Battery — Q+B or R+R; Check for — loose pieces; Improve — worst piece; Loose Pieces Drop Off: undefended pieces are the precondition for forks, pins and dou…. Before each move, note every undefended piece — yours and theirs. That single habit prevents and finds most tactics.
- Who is the Coordination poster for?
- Coordination belongs to the Chess section rather than to a school year, because games is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning middlegame can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Coordination poster?
- Three coordinated pieces beat five that are not. Coordination is what turns material into threats. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Coordination belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Coordination?
- Attacking the King, Bishop or Knight and Defending sit alongside Coordination in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Attacking the KingBishop or KnightDefending
- Is the Coordination poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Coordination 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 Coordination poster print at?
- Coordination 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 Coordination loses nothing.Printing guide
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