For venues
We bring
the boards
You have a room that sits too empty midweek. We have a group that stays three hours.
The best backgammon places in the world are not clubs. They are cafés, bars and kafeneía that happen to have a board lying around. If you run a room in Zürich that sits too empty midweek, it could be one of them.
What we bring
- Boards and people. We bring the equipment and a group that stays three to five hours and eats and drinks while it does.
- A quiet meet. Backgammon is not a tournament with a microphone. It is quiet, it looks good, and it fits in any corner.
- Reach. Every meet is announced, tagged and photographed. Your place is in the post, in the story and on this site.
- An audience you don't already have. The club is mixed: beginners, expats, people from the neighbourhood, people who would never otherwise spend an meet in a bar.
What we need
- Tables two people can sit across — that don't wobble.
- Light you can read a board by.
- Music quiet enough to hear a double.
- A corner for three to six hours. That's all.
How it works
We come by once and look at the room. Then we set a date together, we announce it, and the first meet is a trial for both sides. If it fits, we make it regular. If it doesn't, it was a pleasant meet and nobody lost anything.
No contract, no rent, no revenue share. We pay for what we consume, and you get guests on a day when little else is happening.
A board on a table fills a room more reliably than any half-price hour.
Also a good fit for
Roasteries and coffee bars with long meets. Wine bars that are empty before six. Hotels with a lobby nobody uses. Bookshops. Concept stores with a seating corner. Anyone who wants to keep people in the room longer than one drink has, in backgammon, a very simple tool.
Get in touch
Fastest is a direct message to @homeboardzurich, an email to hello@homeboardzurich.ch, or sign up below and mention that you have a venue. We'll come back to you.