Your best bet might be to find a suitable set of men and then have some local leathermaker tool a leather board to your specifications, appropriate for your pieces.
Magnets don't seem to fit in with a leather board that rolls up.
Does such an analysis board exist?
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Farhad_Gulemov wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a convenient analysis board. Ideally, this board should be smaller than a full-size board, made out of leather, vinyl or any other flexible material, ideally the board and pieces should be magnetized, the pieces should look conventional, they should be weighted, and the board color should be a standard while and green/blue/black. Lastly, the board must have visible letter/number coordinates.
The closests thing to the above I could find so far is this board. Main regert: the board and pieces are not magnetized (I would also have preferred leather over vinyl, but that is not essential)
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
I was looking at that link you posted and on the very same page was a link to this set which I think is exactly what you described... It's mouse pad type board with "lightweight pieces with small magnets" -- (it doesn't actually say if the board is magnetic though.)
JG27Pyth wrote:
I was looking at that link you posted and on the very same page was a link to this set which I think is exactly what you described... It's mouse pad type board with "lightweight pieces with small magnets" -- (it doesn't actually say if the board is magnetic though.)
Yes, you are correct. I had seen this one too, and I should have mentioned that in my initial post. The thing is that the size of this one (8"75) seems awefully small. Has anybody tried playing on such a small board?
But yes, the exact same board in, say 14"-15" would be perfect!
goldendog wrote:
Magnets don't seem to fit in with a leather board that rolls up.
All it would take is a thin layer of metal. I have seen a board made in Korea which had that but, alas, it did not have coordinates. As for the magnets, they should be in the pieces, not in the board.
I had a leather board made to my specs which came off brilliantly. It was not a thin piece of leather though, not suitable for rolling up. Two pieces actually.
A very nice analysis board for my purposes.
how much did you pay for it all?
Just $20 for the board, custom job with 1.5" squares, green and natural.
I made a wooden frame for it and glued it on. A two piece board.
Here is a pic before I finished the teak. I made the pieces you see but I have a standard design (dreuke analysis) set that I use with the set almost always.
absolutely beautiful 
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http://www.chessmate.com/chessmate1.html
scroll down to see them all. I have both the pocket wallet one, and the TravelMate, which I love. The pieces are magnetic and the board is very sturdy and folds up. The pieces are wood. Jeremy Silman did a review of it:
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Hi,
I am looking for a convenient analysis board. Ideally, this board should be smaller than a full-size board, made out of leather, vinyl or any other flexible material, ideally the board and pieces should be magnetized, the pieces should look conventional, they should be weighted, and the board color should be a standard while and green/blue/black. Lastly, the board must have visible letter/number coordinates.
The closests thing to the above I could find so far is this board. Main regert: the board and pieces are not magnetized (I would also have preferred leather over vinyl, but that is not essential)
Thanks in advance for any pointers!