18 mm go stones?
Posted: Mon May 30, 2016 3:23 am
Hi,
I mainly play on the net (nowadays not even there) so a physical go set was never a priority (I didn't have anyone to play with anyway).
I used to play my younger brother as a child using a plastic set: a thin, folding plastic board and double convex, shiny plastic go stones (of surprisingly pleasant quality).
As my children grow I'd like to play with them more often and I used to default to my old plastic set, but the material of the board became too old and it broke.
My wife gave me a new board for Christmas... How to go about this? You should not judge a present. Enough to say that it's not the best quality. The board would be ok (for me), after all, it's better than my old plastic set. But the stones are unbearable. They are amorph glass blobs painted black and white. What's worse, they are too large and don't fit the (unusually thin spaced) board.
This has led to me become reluctant to play go with my kids. Unfortunately my old plastic stones are even larger than these glass blobs, so I can't use them as a substitute. I measured the board grid and the spacing is 19 mm, so I think 18 mm stones would fit. But I don't seem to find 18 mm stones anywhere.
So my question, do 18 mm diameter stones even exist? And where to find them? I'd prefer glass stones, but plastic is ok too. Also can someone help with the standard sizing of go stones? Because many times I just see "Size 28" and if I'm lucky I can find in the detailed description that those are 21 mm in diameter. Though there must be a table somewhere describing those sizes, like this one (but this one is only partial): https://shop.gogameguru.com/media/catal ... hell_2.jpg
I mainly play on the net (nowadays not even there) so a physical go set was never a priority (I didn't have anyone to play with anyway).
I used to play my younger brother as a child using a plastic set: a thin, folding plastic board and double convex, shiny plastic go stones (of surprisingly pleasant quality).
As my children grow I'd like to play with them more often and I used to default to my old plastic set, but the material of the board became too old and it broke.
My wife gave me a new board for Christmas... How to go about this? You should not judge a present. Enough to say that it's not the best quality. The board would be ok (for me), after all, it's better than my old plastic set. But the stones are unbearable. They are amorph glass blobs painted black and white. What's worse, they are too large and don't fit the (unusually thin spaced) board.
This has led to me become reluctant to play go with my kids. Unfortunately my old plastic stones are even larger than these glass blobs, so I can't use them as a substitute. I measured the board grid and the spacing is 19 mm, so I think 18 mm stones would fit. But I don't seem to find 18 mm stones anywhere.
So my question, do 18 mm diameter stones even exist? And where to find them? I'd prefer glass stones, but plastic is ok too. Also can someone help with the standard sizing of go stones? Because many times I just see "Size 28" and if I'm lucky I can find in the detailed description that those are 21 mm in diameter. Though there must be a table somewhere describing those sizes, like this one (but this one is only partial): https://shop.gogameguru.com/media/catal ... hell_2.jpg
Nobody under the age of 65 seems to know chess either, by the way 
