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Look on YouTube for some very creative ways to make an inexpensive and beautiful chess board yourself. Basically, it involves a piece of cabinet grade plywood, some spray paint, masking tape, and polyurethane sealer.

This is a beautiful set, and it deserves to be displayed proudly.

In that first picture I thought first that the board was on the floor and compared it's size to the radiator. Sorry, it was not so BIG.

Have you thought about doing custom work?

A paper mâché board perhaps? It would be a fun project to do with the little one. Could make pieces too!

The board looks terrible, I would say a 2/10

The pieces look OK. they would be great if they where 3.75, also don't know about the materials are they ebonized or ebony?

After looking at that board again, I have to agree with htdavid.  That board is terrrible.

I really do like the colors of the squares, but that's about it.

It really looks like it took a lot of work inking in the squares and then the letters and numbers.  And they look nice.

BUT, the material for the board and the way the one file is separated really looks bad.

The edges also are ragged and look terrible.

I understand that you must have put a good amount of time into it.  But that just shows a true waste of time.  Because of the shoddy piece, or pieces of cardboard, used the final product really looks bad.

I would suggest getting a different piece of cardboard that is big enough to be the whole board.  Or get 2 pieces that would each be half the board size and tape them together making a folding board.

And look at somehow finishing the edges.  Taping them would work and give a nice finished edge instead of the raggedy edges there is now.

And let your 4 year old have the first board you made.  I bet she would really enjoy playing with it.

This, I found from internet (Google pic search "D.I.Y chess board") , is beatiful:

I think cardboard is a bad material for a chess board.

The best DIY idea for a chess board, I have seeing so far, is a stamped t-shirt. the stamp is just a simple sponge cut in square and then a t-shirt, you can even use the t-shirt as a bag to carry the set.

Simple, efective, fast, and original. Here is the picture I got the idea from, consider the set on this pictures is about $150.000 dollars:

Cool that T-shirt. This is cool too. 

There are many cools. https://www.google.fi/search?q=chessboard+do+it+yourself&num=100&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X

The pieces are nice and deserve a nice board , not the joke that they stand on .   

All I have in my head is the image of someone sitting down ina park, taking off that tshirt and playing a few quick games on before tossing it back on and heading home. 

Me too! Esepcially if we play with those beautiful peices. :)

My new board has arrived. What does everyone think now?

I personally feel the contrast of the carboard squares was nicer.

That looks really nice, ardiwd, really nice.

But you're kinda right about the cardboard set-up you had earlier. And that one had character. Now you're stuck with a beautiful chess set just like everybody else.