Thanks! It seems like a good and well thought out guide.
Hello!
Everyone's a critic, right? 
Just a few friendly suggestions... feel free to ignore.
If I was looking for a guide like you wrote, I would want less info on the overall "strategy" of chess (eg: developing pieces, using the king during endgame, etc.) and FAR more information on rules and etiquette of play. Examples of this would be:
Use of a chess clock
Recording games during play
Piece adjustment
The exact rules of Draws: 50 move, 3-fold repetition, inadequate material, offered draw.
(Example: Just WHAT, exactly, constitutes inadequate material? )
Politeness and non-distractiveness, and other basic OTB etiquette
Things like that. I would also completely dispense with things like colour classifications and the history of the rules of the game... this type of information can be researched in other ways and only "thickens" what should be a basic beginners primer. Make the thing a pamphlet that can be read cover to cover in 5 minutes, and you're on the right track!
One other thing... in the section on Castling, you did not mention that the king cannot castle out of check, and that the squares the king castles "over" and castles "onto" cannot be under attack by enemy pieces. This is a MAJOR blunder for a document on the rules of chess, and needs to be corrected IMMEDIATELY if you want this thing to be taken seriously by anybody.
Thanks for reading... just my opinion please don't be offended.
Hello!
Everyone's a critic, right?
Just a few friendly suggestions... feel free to ignore.
If I was looking for a guide like you wrote, I would want less info on the overall "strategy" of chess (eg: developing pieces, using the king during endgame, etc.) and FAR more information on rules and etiquette of play. Examples of this would be:
Use of a chess clock
Recording games during play
Piece adjustment
The exact rules of Draws: 50 move, 3-fold repetition, inadequate material, offered draw.
(Example: Just WHAT, exactly, constitutes inadequate material? )
Politeness and non-distractiveness, and other basic OTB etiquette
Things like that. I would also completely dispense with things like colour classifications and the history of the rules of the game... this type of information can be researched in other ways and only "thickens" what should be a basic beginners primer. Make the thing a pamphlet that can be read cover to cover in 5 minutes, and you're on the right track!
One other thing... in the section on Castling, you did not mention that the king cannot castle out of check, and that the squares the king castles "over" and castles "onto" cannot be under attack by enemy pieces. This is a MAJOR blunder for a document on the rules of chess, and needs to be corrected IMMEDIATELY if you want this thing to be taken seriously by anybody.
Thanks for reading... just my opinion please don't be offended.
@Bawker's suggestions make sense, and are not offensive by any means
