6 Inches Magnetic Unique Chess Set Board Game - 2 Extra Queens - Folding Board, Portable Travel Chess Board Game Pieces - Black/Grey

This chess set can be readily rolled-up and put-away. Conversely, it’s easily re-deployed when required. But will it preserve the chess piece positions? To a large extent, it will. Some of the positions will shift if this chess roll-up is bounced around in say a backpack. However, the preservation of the state of play is good enough. Yet, this isn’t its greatest strength. The important bit here is that it’s actually difficult to drop or loose a piece and there’s more.- The size and proportions of the set fills your perspective when this chess set is held in your hand. To your mind’s eye, it appears as a full-sized board thus making the game-play easier to appreciate.- Extra queens and two other extra pieces are included.- I’ve had the kit for two weeks now and it appears to be sturdy and well made. The inclusion of a tie-bag is a nice touch.- Delivery from Columbus, Ohio to my place in Europe was under three days - utterly amazing!

Set is very well made and functional. Party-piece is of course that it folds (or rather rolls) into a neat tube-looking container you can carry anywhere you want, and not worry that it will pop open and you lose pieces because everything is held together with strong magnets including the latch.

Perfect for camping me and my son have used it multiple times already.

I want to specifically address the one commenter that left a 1 star review, stating that the pieces required stickering and that no extra queen or pieces were added. This person admits they didn't even open their pieces, and must have not glanced very hard at the clear holder either, just assuming that the pieces had no faces since stickers were included. The faces all face inward due to the admittedly gimmicky packaging, but one could easily open it without disturbing the pieces or breaking any seal. Had this reviewer done so, they would have seen the game comes with an extra queen for each color, and an extra blank piece which you can apply a sticker to if you lose any of the other pieces...excellent forward thinking for a chess maker, especially a travel set at that where pieces could potentially go missing. It annoyed me so much that this reviewer left a 1 star I had to counter it with my own. The pieces are solid, the mechanism for closure works well and looks quite edgy/mechanical, and the pieces stay in place. All magnets seem very secure (even if they became lose or slip out due to heat, which can happen if stored in cars or backpacks in summertime, you can easily just glue them back in or get replacements). Have played on these boards and have no complaints other than it's hard getting used to seeing the up-side-down faces of the opponent when I am so used to seeing them all facing towards me online.My one other complaint is the orange board doesn't seem as vibrant for mine as others I've seen posted in reviews...rather drab. I bought the blue set from Ventureboard's site and this one looks much better. Will most likely get the standard black and white edition soon too. I'll be stuck if they come out with other colors because I'll just want them all (especially if they do green or something crazy like purple next) so I can have sets stashed everywhere. Totally happy with my purchase.The extra blank piece also acts as a turn marker if you stack it on top of another piece to determine whose turn it was the last time you opened the board.

First of all, this is my go-to board when I'm reading my chess books or traveling. The idea for this magnetic, rollable, place-saving, size of a water bottle travel chess set is genius! I'm so glad I bought this as it's way better than trying to move tiny magnetic discs on a checkbook style pocket board. That being said, there are a few things I think could make it even better.The good:- When I first received my Venture Board a handful of the pieces had magnets that has fallen out. I reached out to the company (on a Saturday night no less) and they responded instantly! Sent me replacements for the pieces with magnet issues. That is an A+ for customer service.- Magnets are pretty strong. The pieces don't stay perfectly in place when in storage mode and in my backpack, but they aren't all over the place either. Just some little piece adjustments here and there and we are back to the saved position. A must for going through chess books a little bit at a time.-Build quality feels solid! I'm not worried about this board at all.The wish list:- I wish the print on the pieces stood out more. Especially the white print on the black pieces. I don't have the greatest eye sight so that contrast/pop of maybe a thicker line for the image or a brighter white on the black pieces would be extremely awesome!- As they come, the pieces can't slide across the board because of the bottom corner being a sharp "90°" angle (it might not be exactly 90° but you get what I mean). The sharp corner catches on the groove of the folds. This can be easily fixed with rounding the bottom corners (which I did with some light sanding) or adding a camfer. That way the corner doesn't get snagged on the lip of the folds.- I think the file notations on the board should be lower case. a, b, c... instead of A, B, C to follow the algebraic notation on most boards, in most books, and websites out there. Capital letters are for pieces notation, not file notation. That's just a design preference though.All in all I would absolutely buy this again, but it could be even better with some small, subtle changes. Great travel chess board.(Also, the photo showing off the shape of the pieces with the bishop outlined is set up incorrectly. White King doesn't start on d1. I'm sure that was mistake on the photographers part, but I'd Photoshop that real quick so chess players aren't put off)