ALANGDUO Magnetic Go Game Set 19x19 Chinese Chess Set (15-Inch) Portable with Magnetic Plastic Stones Portable and Travel Ready Set （Extra Large 38x38cm）

My niece’s gift, she like it a lot, tough plastic, magnetic white n black , works well.

I actually accidentally bought this but turned out to be great for a couple reasons.We are in our 40’s and love board games. But the games that are made now are to complicated for us. We enjoy older simple games. Chess, shut the box, othello. I was trying to buy us a travel Chinese checkers board for camping ( more on that in a moment) but when I got this instead like I said I was pleasantly surprised. It does look like it’s probably the game GO from China not chess. It’s a two player strategy game. Upon reading more about it I found out it’s the oldest and one of the hardest board games. But there is no making our own rules or fantasy so it’s perfect.Just google it there is tons of info.I ordered the large board because I wanted to store other games for when we went camping. And it’s going to be perfect for that. I have smaller boards that fit perfect inside and the board is water resistant made of hard plastic that closes and the pieces are stored in round plastic boxes. Excellent for traveling

I like that I could immediately pull the set out of the box and teach my son how to play. Functionally, everything is good. The board is straight, the pieces all have magnets in them that help keep them in place on the board, and the containers for the pieces fit nicely into the board when it's folded and closed up. It's way more convenient to play with spastic pre-teens vs my 35 year old wood board and pieces that slide at the slightest bump. The 15" set is just barely big enough for my ape hands to use as a home set. I wouldn't use it as a travel set, since you'd likely fracture the plastic base in transit unless you were really careful with it. It's not fragile, just plastic.Likes:- I can fold the board in half and have a closed single piece package without some ratty cardboard box to keep it in.- Instructions in English for my Chinese illiterate son to read through; easy for a 12 year old to understand- MAGNETS!- Seam is nice and even when the board is open, no issues playing on/near the lineIssues:- Easily a full third of the pieces have the magnets glued in at some weird angle, so they don't sit flat on the board.- The pieces on the 15" set are large enough that they're very difficult to remove after a capture; they sit practically edge to edge when placed in adjacent locations. Not a huge problem, but you end up shoving other pieces around when you place and remove as the board gets crowded. Guess you have to buy a bigger board.- There are raised rings on the interior of the set that I assume are there to hold the "stone" compartments in place when the board is closed, but the rings don't fit into any grooves on the compartments, and the compartments are too wide and too thin to be fit inside of them. They slide around inside when the board is closed up. Shake it and I assume the pieces will eventually all fall out inside the board and make a giant mess.Overall not bad for the price, but could definitely be improved 100% if the magnets were all put in straight.

I bought this for my son, as a beginner set. I like the magnetic feature, which keeps the pieces in place so they don't get knocked out of place.

The magnet-core plastic stones (playing pieces) in this Alangduo Go game set are okay, nice enough. Everything else about it is crummy.The board is badly made plastic. It’s a folding board, but won’t really stay folded closed; if you don’t somehow keep it closed by some method of your own, all the stones in their two containers will just all fall out.And the folding board won’t really unfold all the way open for play either, the plastic hinge is too crudely done, so it is always humped up in the middle, looks horrible, ridiculous for a game that is so pointedly supposed to be played on a flat board.And maybe I was foolish to expect that a main point of the magnetic game set was to attract the stones only to the positions on the board where they are supposed to go, to keep them aligned/adjusted. But that’s not at all how this board works (or maybe any magnetic game board set, I admit I don’t really know); this one at least appears to contain a thin sheet of steel right under the plastic playing surface, the entire surface, so that the stones stick to the board, but equally well anywhere, no preference for the allowed positions at the intersections. This is certainly of some use, helps keep the stones on the board, but not really in the right places on the board. It would be so much better if the board had individual pieces of metal under the surface only at the intersection points - but that might cost an extra 10 cents to manufacture.And the game comes in a crummy cheesy cardboard box - so flimsy that it just tears apart trying gently to open it. Oddly, this box says on it that is a “Chess set,” says so both as shown online and as actually delivered - although it turns out to indeed be a Go set, as otherwise stated. (Or maybe Go is called chess somewhere that I’m supposed to know about?)The stones come in zip-loc-style plastic bags, separately for black and white, should be nice, except they’re ultra-light, cheap-o plastic bags, where, in my case, the bag with the black stones arrived having already broken open by itself and spilled out most of the black stones - more tackiness.Meanwhile, during the mere 2 days that it took to get this Go set delivered from Amazon, I realized that it’s better to skip this actual, physical Go set entirely anyway, and instead play on any of the many Go games available online - where the pieces always stay in their perfect right positions, and the game will automatically enforce the rules (like removing captured/surrounded stones - very helpful to a newbie) - and it’s all available instantly, and free.Except for the stones, which are okay, this really is a crummy Go set. Highly recommend you skip it and just play online, better and for free. If I were rating this Go set on any absolute scale, I would give it just 2 stars. But I also see that this kind of cheap game set seems to be more the rule than the exception; I suppose that this is mostly all that people want to pay for. Considering, I will grade it a bit more on a curve and rate it 3 stars.