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Re: Would this be a good board for my stones?
Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 4:36 pm
by palapiku
dragonstout83 wrote:Is there a reason people prefer 2 inch boards vs. 1 inch boards beyond, basically, "bigger is better"? Is the sound different, or do standard-sized stones look too thick on a 1-inch board or something?
The go board is quite big, so unless it's 2 inches or more it looks disproportionately thin.
Re: Would this be a good board for my stones?
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 7:43 am
by dragonstout83
That seems like an unlikely explanation to me; tournament-sized chess boards are even larger (18 in x 18 in, usually with an extra border around it) and yet I've never seen a chess board even thicker than an inch! I think what makes the difference for Go boards is that wood grain is so important for Go, and a thicker board means more wood grain to admire on the sides. Except that since table boards are usually made of several pieces, the wood grain doesn't look that great on the side, in my opinion, different grains all jutting up against each other...
Re: Would this be a good board for my stones?
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 7:58 am
by imabuddha
The real question to ask yourself when choosing a go board is:
"Does this board make my stones look fat?"
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 11:43 am
by EdLee
dragonstout83 wrote:yet I've never seen a chess board even thicker than an inch!
Maybe 2 reasons: chess pieces are usually much taller than Go stones, and culture & history.
Compare: Chinese chess (Xiangqi) and Japanese Shogi (both variants of chess, and both usually have flat pieces) --
Xiangqi is also usually played on thin boards, but Shogi boards come in all thicknesses, just like Go boards.
Re: Would this be a good board for my stones?
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 11:58 am
by palapiku
dragonstout83 wrote:yet I've never seen a chess board even thicker than an inch!
Fine chess sets have a very different aesthetics - for one, chess boards tend to have a frame around the playing area. A go board is just a block of wood, and should look like a block of wood, not a piece of plywood.
A thin, framed go board doesn't look so bad either - have a look at
http://www.igocustom.com/wp-content/upl ... 0_0829.jpg (except on that one the stones look like they're falling off...). But a thin, frameless one seems incomplete.
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Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 4:59 pm
by bogiesan
EdLee wrote:zippythecellist wrote:to clean them with an egg, so I just wanted to double check since that seemed kind of ridiculous.
It is ridiculous, unless you want your set to become a nice breeding ground for all kinds of interesting lifeforms.
Ah, but see this video clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZIwsXpve8&feature=related
Re: Would this be a good board for my stones?
Posted: Thu May 05, 2011 6:01 pm
by tchan001
The question then becomes "where do you get the bag of wax powder for the stones?"
