I have some interest in Go... started with me reading Hikaru no Go in Viz's version of Shonen Jump back in the day, and I own a Go board, though sadly, I've long since lost the stones that came with it and the grid lines are just printed on... and the most I've ever had the opertunity to play was some training games on a 9*9 board. I also have an interest in other classic abstract strategy games like Checkers(Draughts to the Brits if I'm not mistaken), Chess, Othello/Reversi, Chinese Checkers, though its been what feels like forever since I've had anyone to play face-to-face... And speaking specifically of Othello, one of the dorms at the school for the blind I attended for most of my K-12 education had a really nice set that I wish I could find... The game pieces consisted of three parts: black plastic with a ridged, concentric circle pattern, white plastic with a smooth surface, a small disc magnet that fit between the two pieces of plastic, which snapped together. And the magnets all alinged so they stack with the same orientation. There were also black plastic cases with rounded sides that each held two stacks of 16 pieces. The board had green painted metal squares the magnets would stick to, an embossed grid of black lines, the squares just barely wider than the diameter of the game pieces... also the board was thick, the play surface maybe an inch about the table top, and the board folded in half, shut with magnets, and the bottom of the board had two cut outs that the piece containers could be stored in. Closed it was maybe 5"*10"*2", and overall, I would say it was perfectly designed both for portability and blind play... throw in a set of 32 fridge magnets to block off half the squares, and it could have doubled as the perfect portable/blind friendly checker set(could have played checkers with it as is, but making the checkering of the board more obvious would help avoid illegal moves on to "red" squares... Still, would love to own a set like that... two distinct armies of chessmen with magnetized bases would be nice too. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list