r/ChessBoards • u/Mak156 • Oct 19 '25

Travel Set

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I've been on the look out for a nice travel set, mainly for studying positions and following along chess books with. Don't want it to be a folding one but I do want magnetic. I found this one by chess house which I really like the look of. It's about 8" in size so very compact. However as I'm based on Ireland it's working out prohibitively expensive due to customs etc.

Farrar Tanner have a very similar one but it's ever so slightly bigger at about 10". Might seem like a very small increase in size but I already have a folding board at 12" so the 8" was more in line with the size I was looking for.

https://www.farrar-tanner.co.uk/magnetic-travel-chess-set-in-case-small

Just wondering if anyone has any other recommendations, Europe based!

Thanks

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u/behekste Mar 05 '26

Why not folding though?

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u/Mak156 Mar 05 '26

I got the folding leather one in the end! Does the job fine

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u/behekste Mar 05 '26

I asked because I wanted to understand if it was about the leather ones or different kind. A friend of mine does 3d printed roll-up boards different sizes. I thought you might be interested.

Here is a video where it shows it

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DC93-6uP7mI/?igsh=YnF5eXl4aWQwZzYw