Questions about the Time Management poster

What’s on the Time Management poster?

13 entries in 3 groups. Time trouble loses more games than bad openings. Spend time when: The pawn structure is about to change, A piece is about to be traded…; Move quickly when: It is a forced recapture, Only one legal reply makes sense, You ar…; In time trouble: Play safe, forcing moves, Avoid complications, Do not calculate deep…. A common guideline: use about half your time by move twenty. Reaching move twenty with 90% of the clock is not efficiency.

Who is the Time Management poster for?

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

When should you use the Time Management poster?

Spend time at critical moments, not on forced recaptures. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Time Management belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Time Management?

Analysing Your Games, The Blunder Check and What to Study First sit alongside Time Management in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Analysing Your GamesThe Blunder CheckWhat to Study First

Is the Time Management poster free to download and print?

Yes. Time Management 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 Time Management poster print at?

Time Management 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 Time Management loses nothing.Printing guide