Files run a–h left to right; ranks 1–8 bottom to top.
💡 Tip: set the board so a light square is in the near-right corner (h1). “Light on right.”
Crisp vector PDF chess scoresheets & numeric-notation scantrons.
Minimalist: just names + a date. The Panda Academy house sheet — kids don’t waste time filling in board/section/event/opening.
One scoresheet fills a Letter page.
Leave blank to print empty write-in lines.
Vector text & lines — stays crisp at any zoom and prints sharp.
The flagship template is the Panda Chess Academy sheet. I iterated it through a lot of versions — v3.6 is the final one. The big lesson: kids burned half their clock filling in board number, section, event name, opening name… none of which they need. So I stripped it down. All you really need is the players’ names and a date. That’s minimalism that actually helps a tournament run.
Fun fact: so many people downloaded my notation sheet and deleted my panda icon that I hid a signature in plain sight — I set move number 20 in a special font, so its “2” looks a little weird. If you ever see a scoresheet floating around with a weird 2 on the 20, that person is probably a plagiarist — or printing a sheet made by one. 🐼
Numeric notation (4244 / d2d4) is the long game: easy for kids, easy for a camera, easy to go viral. The Scantron mode turns it into a sheet a photo + AI can read straight into PGN.