Printable chess score 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).

Only if it is the sheet prescribed for the competition, or the arbiter accepts it as that sheet. Article 8.1.1.1 names the paper scoresheet prescribed for the competition, and Article 8.3 says the scoresheets are the property of the organiser. Bring this printable sheet to a club or school event. At a rated event, use the form the organiser issues unless the chief arbiter says this A4 sheet is acceptable.

The 2023 Laws have no separate recording rule for juniors. Article 8 applies by time control, not by age. At a standard-play rated event a junior keeps score like any other player, or an assistant acceptable to the arbiter may write for them. The arbiter then adjusts that player's clock in an equitable way, except for a player with a disability (Article 8.1.6). At rapid and most blitz events players need not record moves (Appendix A.2 and B.3), which is why many school sections skip notation. Teach notation before a child's first standard event, not at the board.

The Laws require two signed scoresheets per game. Article 8.7 says both players shall indicate the result by signing both scoresheets. Article 8.3 says those sheets belong to the organiser. Carbonless pairs are common so a player can keep a copy, but that is event practice, not a FIDE number. AICF's Rules for Event page asks organisers to send the chief arbiter's IT3 report, the prize winners' list, the final standings and all back-up files of the event. Collect both signed sheets at the results desk unless the chief arbiter sets a different filing method.

It is built for A4. In a headless Chrome print on 16 October 2026 it came out as one A4 page, about 261 mm tall inside 14 mm margins. A US Letter page is 279 mm tall, which leaves 251 mm inside the same margins, so at 100 percent the signature row and footnote can spill onto a second page. On Letter paper choose fit to page (about 96 percent) and check the print preview before you print a stack. Other browsers and printers were not tested.