Charts for beginners
A beginner's problem is rarely a shortage of explanation. It is that what was explained last week has to be recalled this week, in the middle of doing something else, and it is not there yet. A sheet on the wall covers exactly that gap — and then quietly stops being needed, which is the point.
Most of what is here is for instruments: the first chords on guitar and ukulele, the notes along the fretboard, the layout of the piano keyboard, note values, intervals, the pentatonic box, and the alternate tunings worth meeting early. The rest is for people starting to write code — the flexbox properties, and where a change sits in Git.
Hang them where the practising happens. A reference that makes you put the instrument down has already failed.
CROCHET SYMBOLS
the standard chart symbols, abbreviations and US/UK name differences — per the Craft Yarn Council standards
BISHOP
a diagonal at any distance — and the half of the board that will never come
KING
one square in any direction, from three in the corner to eight in the middle, and castling
KNIGHT
the nearest square off the lines, over pieces, and four moves to the square next door
THE MOVES OF THE PIECES
all six moves from one square, the article of the rules and how many squares each piece holds
PAWN
one square forward, two on its first move, capturing diagonally — and never going back
QUEEN
file, rank and diagonal together — from twenty-one squares to twenty-seven
ROOK
fourteen squares from any square of the board — the one piece that does not care where it stands