Questions about the Pins poster

What’s on the Pins poster?

Absolute pin against Relative pin, side by side. Absolute pin: The king is behind the pinned piece; Absolute pin: The pinned piece cannot legally move; Absolute pin: Attack it with pawns and minor pieces; Absolute pin: It defends nothing effectively; Relative pin: A more valuable piece is behind it; Relative pin: The piece CAN move, at a cost; Relative pin: Sometimes moving it is worth it; Relative pin: Watch for the counter-tactic; A pinned piece is not a defender. Anything it appears to protect is effectively undef…. To break a pin: move the piece behind, block between them, capture the pinner, or attack the pinner to gain a tempo.

Who is the Pins poster for?

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

When should you use the Pins poster?

A pinned piece cannot move. Attack it again with a pawn — it cannot run. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Pins belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Pins?

Back Rank Mate, Calculating and Checkmate Patterns sit alongside Pins in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Back Rank MateCalculatingCheckmate Patterns

Is the Pins poster free to download and print?

Yes. Pins 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 Pins poster print at?

Pins 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 Pins loses nothing.Printing guide