Questions about the Before You Move poster

What’s on the Before You Move poster?

5 numbered steps, with a full worked run-through. Most club games are decided by an oversight, not by a plan. This catches oversights. What did their move attack? — Every move has a purpose. Find it before deciding your…; Are all my pieces defended? — Scan for anything hanging — undefended and attackable.; Checks, captures, threats — Look at all of yours first. Forcing moves are where tacti…; Now theirs — After my intended move, what checks, captures and threats do they get?; Is my king safe? — Back rank, open files toward it, missing defenders.. Sit on your hands. The move you spot immediately is rarely the best one on the board.

Who is the Before You Move poster for?

Before You Move belongs to the Chess section rather than to a school year, because games is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning tactics can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Before You Move poster?

Run this every single move. Blunders are not calculation failures — they are skipped checks. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Before You Move belongs on the wall where that games work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Before You Move?

Back Rank Mate, Calculating and Checkmate Patterns sit alongside Before You Move in the Chess section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Back Rank MateCalculatingCheckmate Patterns

Is the Before You Move poster free to download and print?

Yes. Before You Move 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 Before You Move poster print at?

Before You Move 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 Before You Move loses nothing.Printing guide