Questions about the Good & Bad Bishops poster

What’s on the Good & Bad Bishops poster?

Good bishop against Bad bishop, side by side. Good bishop: Own pawns on the opposite colour; Good bishop: Open diagonals; Good bishop: Active outside the pawn chain; Good bishop: Often better than a knight in open positions; Bad bishop: Own pawns on its own colour; Bad bishop: Blocked diagonals; Bad bishop: Trapped behind the pawn chain; Bad bishop: Common in the French and closed centres; Three fixes: move the blocking pawns, trade the bishop off, or reroute it outside the…. A bad bishop that defends important pawns is not always worth trading. Sometimes it is doing an unglamorous but necessary job.

Who is the Good & Bad Bishops poster for?

Good & Bad Bishops 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 Good & Bad Bishops poster?

A bishop blocked by its own pawns is bad. Move the pawns, trade it, or get it outside the chain. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Good & Bad Bishops belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Good & Bad Bishops?

Bishop or Knight, Attacking the King and Defending sit alongside Good & Bad Bishops in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Bishop or KnightAttacking the KingDefending

Is the Good & Bad Bishops poster free to download and print?

Yes. Good & Bad Bishops 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 Good & Bad Bishops poster print at?

Good & Bad Bishops 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 Good & Bad Bishops loses nothing.Printing guide