On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:34:02 -0400, Jim Charter wrote:

> 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.

Interesting.  I can't remember a chessboard that I've played on made out 
of wood where that wasn't the case.  But it stands to reason that it 
wouldn't be 100% consistent. :-)

Jim

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