What’s on the Piece Mobility poster
A 5-row table: Piece · Centre · Corner.
Squares controlled on an empty board.
- Knight — 8 — 2
- Bishop — 13 — 7
- Rook — 14 — 14
- Queen — 27 — 21
- King — 8 — 3
The rook is the only piece whose mobility does not depend on where it stands — which is why open files matter more than central squares for rooks.
Questions about the Piece Mobility poster
- What’s on the Piece Mobility poster?
- A 5-row table: Piece · Centre · Corner. Squares controlled on an empty board. Knight — 8 — 2; Bishop — 13 — 7; Rook — 14 — 14; Queen — 27 — 21; King — 8 — 3. The rook is the only piece whose mobility does not depend on where it stands — which is why open files matter more than central squares for rooks.
- Who is the Piece Mobility poster for?
- Piece Mobility 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 Piece Mobility poster?
- A knight on the rim reaches two squares. In the centre it reaches eight. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Piece Mobility belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Piece Mobility?
- Setting Up the Board, Check, Mate & Stalemate and Chess Clocks sit alongside Piece Mobility 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 Piece Mobility poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Piece Mobility 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 Piece Mobility poster print at?
- Piece Mobility 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 Piece Mobility loses nothing.Printing guide
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