Best Chess Tables company

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paul-reiners

Has anyone here ordered or tried ordering a chess table from a company called Best Chess Tables?  Did you have a positive experience ordering from them?

If you've bought a chess table there or elsewhere, please let me know what you think of the company you got it from.  I would like to buy a high quality chess table but am not sure the best place to get one.

ElAurens

I friend in Darien CT has the Anastasia model.  I kept saying, "This is the best chess table I have ever seen."  Later, I searched for chess tables on the internet and failed to find it.  But my friend sent me an email with some info that was inside the drawer.  He got the table maybe 5 to 10 years ago.  

The company, appropriately, was named TheBestChessTables.com.  But that web site had viruses on some of the pages.  After searching, I did find the Riley Furniture Company in Miami.  I called phone numbers that were always busy.  But I did eventually get in touch with a lady and I placed the order over the phone after establishing email contact.  

After all, that was the best chess table I had ever seen.  I will let you know what happens.  Wish me luck.  

ElAurens

An update: The table arrived from TheBestChessTables via UPS.  After spending a few hours, I assembled the table and got the packing material cleaned up.  There was a little damage to the box, but not to the table.  It did lose a few bolts and washers, but I got some at Home Depot. You put the table top upside down on the floor, then place the four legs, then you bolt the bottom platform onto the leg ends, and finally, you tighten the bolts where the legs meet the table top.  

Truly great, it's the best chess table I have ever seen, and I'm 63 years old.  A chess table needs to be SOLID, since you lean on it all the time.  There needs to be room on the left and right for books and captured men, and a clock.  This table has a 20" board, with 2 1/4" squares.  

You can learn a lot about what does and does not work, regarding chess tables, on their web site, which now seems free of viruses.  

Take some time and look at the various models, but the Anastasia model, the one with the four legs attached to the lower platform is going to be SOLID.  

There are a lot of chess tables out there that just are not SOLID.  This one is! 

Javan64

Personally, I prefer the Prodigy model.

ElAurens

Just for a correction:  The Anastasia model has 2 1/4" squares, making that an 18" board, not 20".  

And yeah, that Prodigy model looks good, definitely.  And it's $400 cheaper, too. 

Do you find it to be SOLID?     :)

NimzoRoy

I paid a pal who is a very good woodworker to build me a chess table out of primo woods (he has all sorts of "scraps" and leftovers available for such projects) and for about $350.00 I got a beautiful table with storage space under the top for chess men, other games, etc. The top is about 30" x 30" and the storage space is slightly smaller and 6" deep - the entire top swings up to access the storage space instead of having a drawer or drawers. It's not as fancy as the more expensive tables you're looking at ie it sits on 4 straight legs but it's still very nice and practical.

I recommend looking around for a local craftsman to build a table to your exact specs esp at the prices I saw from the link you gave. BTW Avast security claims that some of the website's pages are "infected" maybe it's a false positive but then again, maybe not...