Hex Goban

[MarkSteere]

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Poplar, laser etched lines. Next one will be kaya. This one was kind of a test board (at $425).

[palapiku]

Nice board! Very pretty.

[CnP]

Very nicely done. The quality is spellbinding, I couldn't take my eyes off it

[LocoRon]

Placing stones inside the geometric shapes? What devilry is this?

[MarkSteere]

Placing stones inside the geometric shapes? What devilry is this?

There's been a bit of an outcry among Go players. Every hexagonal board I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot, has the stones inside the cells. There are undoubtedly exceptions, but it's a de facto standard.

Btw, this is the maker:
Paul Staley, Specialty Woodworks, Mountain View, CA
http://www.custommade.com/by/specialtywoodworks/

[karaklis]

This board would be excellent for a nameles game that I invented in 1992 or 1993 (I forgot the exact date; I used to call it "gamax", because I found "yet another hexagonal board game" too long).
The rules are quite simple.
The game starts with an empty board except for the center field which contains a red stone.
Then blue and red make a move alternately. One move means to play two stones of one's own color on two empty fields.
The one who first creates a regular hexagon wins.
In the example below blue wins (see the yellow fields: these fields form a regular hexagon).



Of course you can also play it with black and white stones

[HermanHiddema]

If you wanted to play on the intersection while maintaining the same grid function, you would need to have it triangle tiled, like this:



But that would, IMO, have a rather dense look. The hexagons are cleaner.

[MarkSteere]

This board would be excellent for a nameles game that I invented in 1992 or 1993 (I forgot the exact date; I used to call it "gamax",

Interesting

I had the board made specifically for Oust for which base 7 is almost always used. Sometimes base 8 is used, but... it's etched in wood.