How to Win Chess Board Games
- Written by: Joe bob Joe bob
- Published on: Jul, 06 2011
There are many materials used to make a chess board. How do you know what is right for you? You can do this by understanding the types of boards typically available and there look and feel. These boards vary widely in price, size and look, so the one that is right for you depends on many factors. We will cover many of them to help you wade through the vast selections and “win the chess board games”. Maple is a pale wood with good hardness and excellent polishing characteristics. Chess boards usually use the pale slightly off-white variety of maple for the "white" squares. For the darker squares, the maple is often stained with a wood dye, or combined with other woods such as bubinga, rosewood, hazelnut etc. Rosewood grows in many subtropical climates and varies in color from light rose to dark brown, often with darker streaks. Rosewood is also used in the manufacture of top quality chess pieces. Hazelnut production comes from the Northern Hemisphere such as around the Black Sea in Turkey and the Atlantic Coast in France. The wood itself is light brown and often richly detailed with flowing, almost ethereal patterns of darker brown graining. Walnuts belong to the family uglandaceae and are deciduous trees. Colors range from creamy white in the sapwood to a dark chocolate color in the heartwood. The wood is hard, dense, tightly grained and polishes to a very smooth finish. Bubinga (aka kevazingo) is the name for timber from the genus Guibourtia, found mainly in Equatorial Africa, from southeast Nigeria through Cameroon and Gabon, to the Congo region. Bubinga wood is fairly rare and exclusive and has an appearance similar to light rosewood. Madrones are evergreens and are native to the temperate regions of the Mediterranean, Western Europe and the Pacific coasts of North America. Madrona has a smooth red bark and the mature wood beneath has a greenish, silvery appearance, with a satin smoothness. Mahogany is often used in furniture making due to its rich, warm reddish brown color, tight grain and smooth finish. The grain of the wood is usually straight and plain, but sometimes exhibits swirls and ripples. Ebony is also frequently used to make high end chess pieces. Being an exceptionally hard wood also makes ebony fairly brittle, so it needs to be handled with due care. Ash is a straight-grained wood with a very high strength to weight ratio, and as such has been the wood of choice for baseball bats, hockey sticks and canoe paddles. It takes a stain particularly well, as shown by our black/ash chess board above, which exhibits wonderfully smooth and deep, almost ebony-like blacks. The term "burl wood" does not refer to a specific type of wood as such, but alludes to the fact that the wood has been obtained from a specific section of a tree, often one which exhibits the most spectacular graining. Burl wood actually comes from deformed growths either on or within the trees - often caused by injury, infection, or abnormal tree cell division. This causes various twists, turns and knots in the wood fiber, resulting in random and fascinating patterns when cut. Briar wood is the name given to root wood from trees of the genus Erica arborea, and is similar to burl wood in that it usually exhibits stunning grain patterns. Now you will be able to win the “chess board games”. For more information about chess board games chess board games visit our site http://www.boardchessset.com/