Should i get my boyfriend a marble chess board without storage or a wood board with storage for his birthday?

We both love chess and I already bought the chess pieces separately. I just don't know whether a marble board or a wood board is better.|||The day will eventually arrive where the chess board will be accidentally dropped on the floor. Which do you think will survive that fall unscathed? The wood, of course.





Wooden boards are, and have been for many generations, the board-of-choice for real players. It is one of the ear-marks of a beginner or non-chess player, to use marble, onyx, glass, etc, rather than wood.





Also, consider should you ever want to tote the board and set to a tournament, a friend or relatives house, the marble board would be heavy and still very fragile.





The wooden set wins hands-down!





P.S. Bringing a marble or onyx board to a tournament is certain to elicit many behind-the-hands snickering and derisive chuckling.|||I have one of the marble ones and they're really nice but they're kind of a hassle. You have to have enough room for them (they're pretty bulky) and a place to display it. If the game is something he'd use only occasionally, I'd go for the wood set with the built-in storage.|||If you want to play chess then take a wooden board. No real chess player plays on marble boards as it is a strain on the eyes.





So more simple the colours so better. I would buy just the wooden board and store the pieces somewhere else.|||Hello;





In my opinion a nice wooden board with the storage would be the better. Of course I haven't seen the set, nor do I know if the set is for display or occasional play.





I just like wooden boards better than marble.





Gens Una Sumus,





Bill|||i would go with the glass set, its more elegant, you could put it on lets say for example a coffee table in the living room and it would look nice.|||marble to marble


wood to wood


problem solved


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