BraRoe Chess Blog

Take some time searching around the internet for chess sets, and you will undoubtedly find reference to chess sets made from Golden Rosewood. Sounds good. Rosewood is a great material for chess sets. Adding ‘Golden’ to the name makes it sound even better - a rosewood chess set with a golden brown hue.

Unfortunately, the Golden Rosewood is a misnomer, although a popular one. It seems that through the chess set industry, there has been the unfortunate tendency to bill Sheesham Chess Sets and something that they are not.

Sheesham is a beautiful brown wood that can be turned into ‘black’ chess pieces for a great look. But, it should not be confused as being a rosewood. Sheesham is not Rosewood, not is it related to rosewood.

Golden brown chess sets are beautiful and made to be in any chess players life, but beware of chess sets dubbed “Golded Rosewood”, and understand what you are potentially buying.

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