Cookbay Folding Portable Go Set｜Folds to Carry · Gatherings & Downtime · Halls Entertainment

On the evenings the essay refuses to move, set out a game of Go — somewhere between the black and white stones, the mind goes quiet.

This is a folding portable Go (weiqi) set: the board folds in half, and the black and white stones live in their own jars. Suited to a desk in halls, a society-event bag, or anyone wanting to learn the game.

Unfolded, the board gives you the full grid; folded, it is half the size and slides into a backpack. Stones pour out and pack away quickly by jar.

It removes the two barriers of a formal Go set: space and price — both worse abroad, where sets are hard to find at all. The folding version puts Go back into everyday reach, ready for a game of hand-talk at any hour.

When to play

• Weekend afternoons: invite a fellow player over; a pot of tea and one game can see off half a day.
• Teaching international coursemates: start with liberties and captures — it breaks the ice faster than a language exchange.
• Alone: work through life-and-death problems; it settles the mind better than scrolling.

A desk in a foreign country can still hold slow hours in black and white. A taste of home, in a foreign kitchen — and in a quiet game.

Specifications: folding board | portable set

Note: dispatched from our UK warehouse