Chess Junior Starter Pack

A chess starter pack for ages 7 to 11: the board and how its squares are named, setting up, meet the six pieces, where-can-it-go worksheets, captures, a true-or-false quiz, a crossword where every answer is a real fact, a word search, a certificate and a full answer key.

What’s inside:

- For grown-ups: how to use the pack

- Welcome to chess: four starter facts

- The board: 64 squares and how they are named

- Name the squares

- Set up the board

- Meet the pieces (two pages): how each piece moves, with our own board drawings

- Where can it go? (two pages of dot-the-squares worksheets)

- Capture! Which black pieces can it take?

- True or false quiz

- Crossword where every answer is a real fact

- Word search

- Chess Starter certificate

- Answer key (two pages)

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 18 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from the FIDE Laws of Chess and Britannica (checked 3 Nov 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are simplified impressions: not photographs, not copied from any chess book, diagram, photo or set design. Not affiliated with FIDE, Encyclopaedia Britannica, any chess federation, club or school, or any maker of chess sets. Their names are used only to identify the sources and the rules we quote.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind chess.learntoplay.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.