The length/width of the chess board is 12-by-12 inches—enough space that one can manipulate the pieces without disturbing the ones surrounding it, and can visually distinguish the rows and files. It ...
Chess is a game of skill, patience, and tact. So it’s no surprise that when it comes to the production of some of the world’s most exclusive and luxurious chess tables, those same principles apply.
An update: I built a new box. 13900k, RTX 3080, 64GB of DDR5-4800. I can get right around 27 million nodes/second in Stockfish 15.1, which feels pretty damn insane. It's still bizarrely not that much ...