Questions about the Your First Game poster

What’s on the Your First Game poster?

5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Enough to play a whole game reasonably. Move a centre pawn — e4 or d4. Two squares.; Develop both knights — Toward the centre — f3 and c3, or f6 and c6.; Develop both bishops — Anywhere active, not blocked by your own pawns.; Castle — Usually kingside, in the first ten moves.; Then look for undefended pieces — Theirs, and yours. That is the whole middlegame at…. Do not try to checkmate early. Develop, castle, and take free material when it appears.

Who is the Your First Game poster for?

Your First Game 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 Your First Game poster?

Four rules will get you through the opening of every game you play this year. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Your First Game belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Your First Game?

Opening Principles, Setting Up the Board and Check, Mate & Stalemate sit alongside Your First Game in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Opening PrinciplesSetting Up the BoardCheck, Mate & Stalemate

Is the Your First Game poster free to download and print?

Yes. Your First Game 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 Your First Game poster print at?

Your First Game 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 Your First Game loses nothing.Printing guide