What type of board goes well with Blood Rosewood pieces?

Hi Everyone. I've got a HOS blood rosewood and boxwood Dubrovnik set of chess pieces. Finding it difficult to match them with a board. What can you recommend that would go well with them?

My favourite combination so far is with a CB sheesham wood board and a CB maple/walnut veneer board.

Any board you wish, wood is the preference for wood pieces. Color matching or contrasting is strictly a personal taste. I like to "marry" boards according to their colors and at times contrast the colors to make them (the chess pieces) pop. I would use either of these 2 boards for the set you just picked up. Padauk and Maple or Purpleheart and maple, both are quite striking.

Yes it is personal taste. I was thinking that either of these two might go well. It would certainly be interesting.

This is the colour of the pieces.

Yes those 2 choices would make the Dubrovnik bloodwood set pop with contrast on the boards you've selected. A black and white board would do well with this set too. This one is a 2.25" Macassar Ebony and Maple chessboard sold at the chess store for just about a c-note.

salcero nails it for good contrast

Hi.  I have one of those Red Ash Burl and maple boards (your picture here is of a green one-?) and I think it goes well with my padauk Chetak II chess bazaar set (roughly same colour as your pieces) - the squares of my board are "in the flesh" in contrast to the pieces a lighter colour than some of the photos on the CB site suggest (in the first photo half the board is in shade so looks darker!), but I'm happy with that differential (I prefer it).  I'd suggest the thing for you to consider is that, aesthetically, it makes for what I'd call an overall reddish colour palate to the set - which may or may not be what you want yourself.  The photos on the CB site do show that aspect up well. My board is glossy, I think they may come in matt as well and that would affect the whole look of it (my pieces are similarly glossy)

Hope this helps.

Afterthought- personally I'd prefer a simpler style board, like salceros' photos, as your pieces are an unfussy design.

Thanks for your replies everyone. I'm avoiding red boards because I don't want to be overloaded with hot and red colours. In the end I ordered the grey board in the photo above and the result is striking. There is a lovely contrast between the board and pieces.

 I agree, the gray with the red pieces must look nice.

Pics! We demand pics!

Here are pics!

Some more.

Oh, wow! Very nice combination. The red really pops on that board.

Beautiful set and board.

Thanks Rsava.....

QtoQlevel3, where did you buy the padauk and maple board?

I didn't buy any of those two but I did buy 3 boards from MTMwood.com and they were all top-notch boards. I have my eye on an Etsy table right now that I'm interested in buying. I did contact MTM wood but haven't heard from him in about a week, he must be vacationing with his family. If the deal doesn't' work out I'll see if this table will be in my home soon.

This stunning table has 2" squares made from Brazilian Jatoba Cherry and Hard Maple with a 1/4" hard maple separator to accent the 3 1/2"  Cherry borders and the beautiful Black Walnut corners. The 3 1/2" skirt is solid Black Walnut. Take a look at these photos it will dazzle the eyes! I will ask the maker to construct this table with 2.36" playing squares which are 60 mm metrically with 5" Brazilian Jatoba Cherry borders and Black Walnut corners and 2 storage drawers on either side and see what he says about these specifications I want on my table. Hopefully, he can make it for me.

Another plus, it's made right here in the U.S.A. and helping with the stimulating of the economy albeit a small operation but every little bit counts! Enjoy the photos, fellow members!

This would be the size of the chess table I would order but with a cherry and maple playing field like the table before this but larger borders to accommodate captured pieces and comfortable chess clock locations without fear of tipping over a short ledge and causing possible damages to the clock and or captured pieces from the game's progression.

Wenge and Maple