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Chess & Draught Piece Size Guide

Guide to matching Chess pieces to chequerboard square sizes

Please note this is only a very approximate guide using some of the common sizes of our chequerboards and chess pieces. We are using the height of the King as a guide to how big the base is usually (approx 45% of the King's height), whereby what size square you would need on your chequerboard / chessboard and vice versa. The size of the squares of the chessboard should be approximately 1¼ to 1⅓ times the diameter of the base of the king.

Of course all this is subjective and the bottom line is that it up to the individual person's preference.

Key:
< means slightly smaller than
> means slightly larger than

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Guide to matching Draught pieces to draughts board square sizes

As above only this time we're using the diameter of the draught piece as a guide.

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