question about buying a board...

[Matthew Mueller]

Hi,

I am looking at buying a backgammon board, but am a little confused
about which one to buy. I was wondering if someone could inform me of
the difference between an 'Attache' board and a regular board. Maybe
they are the same, but I have seen some labeled as 'Attache' boards and
some not labeled as that at all. Any help is appreciated.

Thank you,
Matthew Mueller

[JP White]

Matthew Mueller wrote:

Attaché is short for 'Attaché Case' or 'Briefcase'.

It simply describes that the board comes in the form of an attaché case.
Most boards are of this style, so quite often the seller will not describe
it as 'attaché' even though technically it is.

Be sure you understand the size of the board you are buying. Sometimes the
seller will quote the full size folded out or they may mention the size of
the case folded in two (which understates the full size).

Hope this helps.

JP

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[Daniel Murphy]

On Sun, 03 Dec 2000 23:00:08 -0600, Matthew Mueller
<mmue...@cs.wisc.edu> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am looking at buying a backgammon board, but am a little confused
>about which one to buy. I was wondering if someone could inform me of
>the difference between an 'Attache' board and a regular board. Maybe
>they are the same, but I have seen some labeled as 'Attache' boards and
>some not labeled as that at all. Any help is appreciated.

Boards are either flat (nice at home but a little difficult to schlep
around to tournaments, or hinged like a briefcase. Sometimes the
briefcase-like boards are called "attache" boards. Check out
www.bkgm.com/archive.html for some older posts about what to look for
in boards and checkers.

[Mark Driver]

Apart from the size of the board, another thing you should consider is the
material of the board. Many 'regular' boards are made of wood and have a
wooden playing surface. These type of playing surfaces tend to be frowned
upon for tournament play (even at the local club level) as they are noisy
to play on. The 'attache' type boards tend to have a playing surface made
of a material which is silent in use, such as felt, cork, leather, rubber
etc.

Other things you might want to consider are the 'slideability' of the
playing surface - cheaper boards with stiched vinyl points (the triangles)
have the tendency for the edges to rise up after prolonged use, so
hampering smooth movement of the checkers. If you are going to travel with
the board you might want to consider buying an 'attache' board with locks.

Like anything, with backgammon boards you get what you pay for. You pay for
quality and for size. You can get a decent 'tournament' sized board (approx
21") reasonably cheaply at a variety of places.

In fact I expect Michael Crane will be along at any moment to plug the
reasonably priced tournament boards sold by BIBA :-).

Also Check out gammonvillage.com where various suppliers regularly
advertise their wares.

Matthew Mueller wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am looking at buying a backgammon board, but am a little confused
> about which one to buy. I was wondering if someone could inform me of
> the difference between an 'Attache' board and a regular board. Maybe
> they are the same, but I have seen some labeled as 'Attache' boards and
> some not labeled as that at all. Any help is appreciated.
>

> Thank you,
> Matthew Mueller

[michael.a.crane]

snip>> In fact I expect Michael Crane will be along at any moment to plug
the reasonably priced tournament boards sold by BIBA :-).<<snip

I'm back now! Yep. The Biba tournament sized boards are great value; buy one
today ;-)

Michael

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