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Equipment
> I wonder whether exist the standards for backgammon equipment such as
> e.g. size of the board, checkers a.s.o.
Few written standards, many preferences.
Some rules sets ban sets that are too small or too large. All rules
sets require precision dice and lipped cups in preference to other
types of dice and cups. Any director may ban equipment which doesn't
meet written or unwritten standards.
For tournaments, boards with 1.75 inch (44mm) checkers are popular
with many players. 2" is nice, especially if you can hire a porter to
carry it around for you. 1.5" or 40mm is quite acceptable for playing
and easier to tote. Anything smaller is not a pleasure to play on.
You will not see all-wood boards at tournaments -- too noisy, dice
don't tumble easily. Acceptable materials for the playing fields
include leather, felt, cork, denim and vinyl.
See Backgammon Galore / Newsgroup Archive / Equipment:
http://www.bkgm.com/rgb/rgb.cgi?menu+equipment
Daniel Murphy
raccoon@best.com, Raccoon on FIBS, GamesGrid
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Equipment
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- Board design (Chuck Bower, Feb 2004)
- Board design (Adam Stocks, July 2002)
- Board design (Gregg Cattanach, Dec 2000)
- Board design (Michael Poche+, Dec 1998)
- Board design (Albert Steg, Jan 1998)
- Boards (Bert Van Kerckhove+, Aug 2002)
- Boards--Custom-made (N Merrigan, Mar 2003)
- Boards--Dal Negro (Erin+, Jan 2004)
- Boards--Features to look for (Matthew Mueller+, Dec 2000)
- Boards--Hardwood Creations (Ben Fairbank, May 1998)
- Boards--Tak Morioka (Gregg Cattanach, Feb 2002)
- Boards--Tak Morioka (Ed Zell, Jan 1999)
- Boards--Zavoral (Robert Zavoral, Oct 1999)
- Buying a tournament board (Chuck Bower, June 2011)
- Care of backgammon boards (Ken Bame+, Mar 2009)
- Checkers (Mike O.+, Feb 2003)
- Checkers (Chuck Bower, Nov 1997)
- Dice (Gregg Cattanach, July 2004)
- Dice cups (David Montgomery, Nov 1999)
- Dice cups (Leo Bueno, Feb 1998)
- How much to spend on a board? (Ian Shaw, Apr 2004)
- Leather boards (HGM+, Dec 1999)
- Luxury boards (Paul Vianna+, Feb 2010)
- Meyer Dice Tube issues (Stick+, July 2010)
- Meyer Dice Tube usage (Justin Nunez+, Feb 2011)
- Meyer Dice Tube--Why I hate it (Bob Glass+, Dec 2010)
- Moderately priced boards (William Womack+, Feb 2010)
- Precision dice (Patti Beadles+, Jan 2001)
- Precision dice (Larry Strommen, Feb 1998)
- Precision dice (Chuck Bower+, Feb 1998)
- Replacing cork on backgammon boards (JP White, Apr 2003)
- Suppliers--BG Shop (Michael Nelson, Jan 2002)
- Suppliers--Backgammon boards (CKT, July 2004)
- Suppliers--Backgammon boards (Ian Shaw+, June 2002)
- Suppliers--Where to buy dice (Andrew B.+, Jan 2008)
- Suppliers--Yenigun (yenigun, Sept 2005)
- What finish to use on a cork board? (JP White+, Apr 2003)
- What is "standard size"? (Daniel Murphy, Mar 2001)
- What is "tournament size"? (Rodrigo Andrade+, July 1999)
- Woodworking--Finishing a board (M Moore+, Jan 2008)
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