Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:01:51 +0200, Thomas de Groot wrote:
> 
> 
>>Sure. Still, I would prefer a board made of separate squares....
> 
> 
> I want to say that most of the chessboards I've seen made out of wood 
> tend to have the grain rotated 90 degrees between the light and dark 
> squares.  Makes for a nice effect.
> 
> Jim

I'm not so sure, that was the first thing I thought of with this thread 
so I did some googling and from what I found, not really, either they 
rotate quite randomly, or they stay the same in orientation.

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