Questions about the Online & Over the Board poster

What’s on the Online & Over the Board poster?

Online against Over the board, side by side. Online: Illegal moves are impossible; Online: Pieces are always clearly visible; Online: No touch-move; Online: Instant opponents at your level; Online: Ratings inflate or deflate by site; Over the board: You must see the board from one side only; Over the board: Touch-move applies; Over the board: You record the moves yourself; Over the board: Physical presence and fatigue; Over the board: Slower time controls are standard; Players moving from online to over-the-board often find the board harder to read, and…. Practising on a physical board before a tournament is worth doing. The visual difference is larger than people expect.

Who is the Online & Over the Board poster for?

Online & Over the Board 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 Online & Over the Board poster?

The chess is identical. Everything around it is not. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Online & Over the Board belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Online & Over the Board?

Setting Up the Board, Check, Mate & Stalemate and Chess Clocks sit alongside Online & Over the Board in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Setting Up the BoardCheck, Mate & StalemateChess Clocks

Is the Online & Over the Board poster free to download and print?

Yes. Online & Over the Board 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 Online & Over the Board poster print at?

Online & Over the Board 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 Online & Over the Board loses nothing.Printing guide