Free documents for running a chess academy: a score sheet for recording a game and a progress report for a parent update. The cards below show each document filled in with made-up academy data so you can see how it reads. Open a template to get the blank version, which you print or save as a PDF from your browser’s print dialog.
Filled example from a made-up academy
Reporting
Progress report for a parent update: attendance, rating, themes and one next step.
Filled example from a made-up academy
Tournaments
Score sheet for recording a game: event details, moves, clock times and the result.
Event details, moves, clock times, result and signatures, designed for A4.
A header, evidence, themes, a narrative and one next step, each field bracketed.
Type the fields into the generator instead of writing them by hand.
Six timed phases for one class, with a filled 45-minute example. Copy it into a document.
Use it in ChessCore
A printed sheet holds one game or one month. These two ChessCore features keep the same records in the academy’s software.
Chess student progress tracking is following each student across a season on recorded signals: attendance, game results, ratings and coach notes, and turning those into a report. ChessCore keeps all four in one record. AI-written report text is approved by a coach, and automatic monthly emails, when an academy switches them on, carry the records with no AI text.
See progress trackingChess game analysis for coaches is the workflow of importing a student’s games, having an engine flag the coachable mistakes, and reviewing the moments that matter. In ChessCore games sync from Lichess and Chess.com or load as PGN, Stockfish evaluates, the AI explains, and a coach sends what it drafts.
See game analysisYes. Print the page and write in the bracketed fields by hand, or fill it in with the generator, then print it or save it as a PDF from your browser’s print dialog. No account or download is required.
You cannot type into the brackets on this page. Print and write by hand, or fill it in with the generator. If you want a monthly report built from attendance, ratings and games already in your records, ChessCore’s student progress tracking does that; its layout is its own, not this six-block sheet.
In standard play, yes. The FIDE Laws of Chess taking effect from 1 January 2023, Article 8.1.1, require each player to record both sides’ moves, move by move, as clearly as possible, in algebraic notation (Appendix C) on the scoresheet prescribed for the competition, or on a FIDE-certified electronic scoresheet. The duty pauses when a player has less than five minutes left and does not have 30 seconds or more added with each move (Article 8.4). Rapid games do not require players to record moves (Appendix A.2). Blitz follows that rapid rule unless the event puts an arbiter on every board and records the game (Appendix B).
Article 8.1.3 lets you answer a move before you write it, but you must record your previous move before you play another. If you skipped a line, fill it from the board and your opponent’s sheet as soon as you notice. Do not write future moves in advance (Article 8.1.2). If the sheet is incomplete because you were under five minutes without a 30-second increment (Article 8.4), update it after a flag fall from the opponent’s sheet or the arbiter’s (Article 8.5). If no complete sheet exists, reconstruct the game on a second board under the arbiter (Article 8.5.3).
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