How To Shrink A Goban
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This page is a posterboard for various techniques to create smaller boards out of a regular (and real) goban.
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Make a Mask
- Perhaps the easiest way to shrink a goban is to cut two strips of paper and mark the borders of the desired board size with them. Two of the sides will be the regular borders and the two remaining sides will be marked by the paper strips. -Fando
- A much nicer approach is to cut out a square in a posterboard or piece of cloth such that the material exposes the center of the board out to the desired size. The posterboard can be folded in two and carried around with the goban, but the cloth can be jammed into any random pocket. The masking material should obviously be the same size as the goban. -Fando
- So far I was always using masking tape to mark the edges of the smaller board, which works quite well too, and has the advantage that it doesn't move (compared to strips of paper for example). But the idea with the cloth sounds good too, though it's not as flexible. -Niklaus
Gobans Need Not Apply
- Don't shrink the goban, just draw out a small board on a napkin or what have you. -Fando
No Masks Needed
- For a 9x9, take a folding board, fold it in half and use the side with 9 lines. Then you only need one bit of paper to mask off an edge.
- For 13x13, you can play using the center of the board. The edges of a 13x13 board are the lines with star points on them, giving an easy visual reference for the edge of the board.
Printing?
- If you want simple, yet beautiful mini-goboards or original-sized I found:
http://www.dammfine.com/projects/gobans/ you only have to print it, maybe even on thicker paper. The 9x9 fits a single paper, 13x13 on two, 19x19 or four (which you can tape/glue together afterward) -- icez?
- I have collected some printable 9x9 boards to my WWW-site at
http://people.cc.jyu.fi/~juhtolv/go/docs/ -- juhtolv
Paint
- Smaller boards can be indicated with paint. Let the 1A corner remain the same for all three sizes if the board is marked, else center all three. Use two colors of acrylic paint, one to distinguish each of the two "mini-boards" you want to create. Mark the boundary of the 9x9 and of the 13x13 with a row of dots inside the squares around the borders of the "boards within a board." -- IanM
Please add your techniques! :-)
juhtolv: How about (chain)saw? :-P Sorry, I just could not resist.