Questions about the What to Study First poster

What’s on the What to Study First poster?

Where games are lost against Where time is spent, side by side. Where games are lost: Hanging a piece; Where games are lost: Missing an opponent's threat; Where games are lost: Missing a tactic for yourself; Where games are lost: No plan in the middlegame; Where games are lost: Losing a won endgame; Where time is spent: Opening theory; Where time is spent: Watching games; Where time is spent: Reading about strategy; Where time is spent: Playing more blitz; Where time is spent: Very little endgame work; The mismatch is the whole problem. Study should follow where your own games are actua…. Review your last twenty losses and count the causes. The tally decides your study plan more reliably than any book.

Who is the What to Study First poster for?

What to Study First 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 What to Study First poster?

Games are lost to hung pieces and missed tactics, not to opening theory. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so What to Study First belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with What to Study First?

Analysing Your Games, The Blunder Check and Playing Stronger Players sit alongside What to Study First 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 CheckPlaying Stronger Players

Is the What to Study First poster free to download and print?

Yes. What to Study First 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 What to Study First poster print at?

What to Study First 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 What to Study First loses nothing.Printing guide