I had to email Kadon to get this link apparently these are only made on demand. It is a 12x12 board, and I think it's very attractive, but that's all I know about it. I cannot find anywhere that still sells this, so it may not be available at all, but I am led to believe (by a comment on that image) that these were being sold fairly recently. This is the Con-Tac-Tix board produced by Piet Hein's publishing company (he is the original designer of Hex). And the 3mm is not a typo - they are just very thin. The boards are actually too small to be used with standard Go stones, and instead come with a set of plastic stones. That’s less than an eighth of an inch! Surely it’s a typo for 3cm. Note: according to the site, these boards are 3mm thick. Coordinates are printed around the edges. The style is rhomboidal hex grid meant to be played with Go stones.
According to the site they are made of plywood. If I had to guess, I'd say these were laser printed. The size variety is nice, but there is no 11x11! This is a little strange to me. Coordinates are printed around the edges of the glass and vinyl board, but not the wood, it seems. Apparently meant to be played with Go stones, a set (60 black and 60 white) of which is available for an extra 10 EUR. It's also available in glass and a vinyl mat, with the website and number printed twice. The boards are also hexagonal, not rhomboidal, and printed with the website's address and a unique number. This one is laser etched on what appears to be a single piece of "vintage wood," although it looks mysteriously like plywood. As far as I can find, the only ready-made Hex boards you can buy are from the following sites: Some people are taking some pretty drastic measures to play this most beautiful of games, which is understandable given the scarce availability of commercial boards. While I appreciate the fun in creating boards, I feel that this is more for necessity’s sake than anything else. Making your own Hex board is something of a tradition. It took all of 10 minutes to make, it’s tiny, and the glass pieces have a tendency to slide along the paper surface. Currently I’m using a printed piece of paper attached to stiff felt, with blue and red glass beads of the sort that belong in flower arrangements as the pieces.
#Vinyl goban and stones upgrade#
Altered Carbon is based on the Richard Morgan novel of the same name, his first book in the Takeshi Kovacs cyberpunk trilogy.Recently I decided I wanted to upgrade my Hex board.
The future Altered Carbon depicts is less than optimistic think the bluesy, morose zeitgeist of Blade Runner, as opposed to the love letter to humanity that was Interstellar. The same table goban in Rage in Heaven appears at the beginning of season 1’s final episode, The Killers (#10.) Toward the end of Rage in Heaven (#9) a goban is featured on camera twice it appears this is a “set piece,” although a character picks up and plays with a stone. The game in progress presented, however, appears believable. In a flashback during Nora Inu (#7 – between the 40th and 42nd minute) Kovacs plays go with his sister as they talk. The ‘board’ presented here is a roll-up, either vinyl/cloth (or the futuristic equivalent), though the go-ke appear to be chestnut. And, oh, by the way, his consciousness has been digitized, downloaded and stored in the “cortical stacks” implanted in the spine of his new body.ĪC‘s central protagonist, Takeshi Kovacs, is of Japanese descent and sometimes plays go. The premise of Netflix’s new sci-fi show Altered Carbon is simple: After 250 years of suspended animation a prisoner is returned to the world with exactly one chance to save his life – he must solve a “mind-bending” murder.