Queen's Gambit Mexico City Board

Hello all. As mentioned in another thread, I'd love to see a chess.com article about the various chess boards and piece sets on display throughout the series. In particular, I thought the compact Mexico City board upon which Beth played young Georgi Girev in episode 4 looked fantastic.

Any ideas if/where this might be available? Thanks!

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

I like it too!

You're probably right about it being a Rechapados Ferrer board.. I think they are excellent quality and great value for money (they also make the boards for DGT). I have two myself, one with 55mm squares which I now mostly use Chessbazaar's 3.6" Dubrovnik v2 pieces for (also have RCM's Craftsman series pieces for it) and a smaller one with 45mm (not 40mm) squares which came with the Competition Staunton Walnut Chess Set from Regency Chess. Both boards I have are the walnut colour.

Cheers,

Toby

PS! The difference between a "Economic" and "Standard" Rechapados Ferrer board is just packaging... former just comes in a plastic bag, the latter comes boxed. The boards are the same and have the edge only half the width of the squares. Their "Deluxe" boards are made with the exact same materials and to the same standards... just a wider edge, which is as wide as the squares are (the DGT boards are Rechapados Ferrer Deluxe boards which have the electronics built into them).

Thanks for the big assistance and photos, Toby319! It's very interesting that the suspected manufacturer also makes the boards for DGT since I love the clean look of my DGT board and thought this one would be a very nice compact version of it. 

Here’s an old picture of my non-electronic DGT set with "Timeless" pieces, which I sold a while ago:

As a subtle difference (I can only guess that DGT requested it), the DGT boards are made with a thin black border around the 8x8 square field, whilst they otherwise make them with the lighter maple colour. The walnut squares also appears to be ever so slightly darker.

Personally, I think they look nicer with the thinner edge around the board... to me, it kinda promotes the playing area better then, but that’s just a personal opinion and preference.

/Toby

PS! I can highly recommend the Competition Staunton Walnut set I linked to earlier! I think they had other pieces in the TV series, but they aren’t too different. The ones I have are just the right size for a more compact set. Handles very nicely too (and comes with extra Queens).

Yep, that's the exact DGT board I have. I noticed the nice black border when comparing it to the Rechapados Ferrer board and I think I like them both. Anyway, I purchased the smaller board from the UK:

https://www.chesssets.co.uk/chess-boards/chess-boards-12-16-inches/walnut-amp-maple-chess-board-13.75-inches?zenid=holv5s04ph2qvld1tc80o9udt4

Or, shall I say, I purchased some shipping and got a board along with it?

I would have gotten the set you linked, but I think I want to try to find some suitable pieces similar to your Dubrovnik set. Wow, those are nice. Thanks again!

I need to point out a correction I had to make, just in case you want to contact the company and change the order whilst there is time...

The square size of the smaller board I have (the set I linked to) is 45mm, not 40mm as I did say at first (I have a 40cm board). The board you ordered is 35cm and has 40mm squares.

So the 13.75 inch (35cm) board has 40mm squares.

The 15.75 inch (40cm) board has 45mm squares.

As a comparison to my photos, the board you’ve ordered will have its outer edges fit just inside that maple coloured border on my smaller board. I guess that is something the Deluxe boards have going for them since they have they wider edge... a 550mm board has 55mm squares, a 500mm board has 50mm squares and so on.

Sorry if my mistake is causing some problems for you! The 13.75 inch board is still a nice size, if you get a matching sized set of pieces.

I hope you’ll enjoy it!

/Toby

Drueke's iconic crisscross border boards are by far my favorite chessboard. I do like the standard plain Jane veneered boards as well but the Drueke's are my favorite. 

Yeah, I figured it out beforehand when following your link and working out out the math.  This small one is the one I wanted to try. Thanks again!

Phew! 😊

Enjoy the postage, ehem, I mean chess board! 😉