Board games for playing draughts and chess

A game board for playing draughts and chess, said board comprising a hexagonal playing surface having marked thereon 163 discrete unit areas aligned in three intersecting mutually inclined sets of parallel lines with the unit areas being spaced apart from each other by equal distances to form a regular equilateral triangular array, each set of lines of unit areas being parallel to a respective pair of opposite sides of said hexagonal playing area, each side of said hexagonal playing area having six unit areas spaced apart therealong, a single unit area being omitted from each of the corners of said hexagonal playing area and the unit areas being arranged in three mutually distinguishable sets so that in each set the unit areas are separated from each other in each of said lines by two unit areas belonging one to each of the other sets, the unit areas of said playing surface arranged in a plurality of files, each file beginning with a unit area along one side of said playing surface and ending with a unit area at the side opposed to said one side, each file having end unit areas of the same distinguishable set of unit areas at opposed sides of said playing surface, there being a total of eight unit areas of the same distinguishable unit area set as said file end unit areas arranged along each file.