I’ve been playing backgammon for a lot of years and consider myself a pretty serious player.  I love the strategy involved and the chance of the dice.  But once you’ve been playing for awhile I think you start become more interested in the whole experience, that’s what happened to me.  It might be funny, but I started to really take my backgammon boards seriously.
Backgammon has been around since the ancient Egyptians, so there’s been plenty of backgammon boards created.  When I was on a trip to the Middle East, I saw some really interesting backgammon boards; awesome artwork, raised points, checkers out of gem stones; they boards were awesome.  And people over there take their backgammon seriously; great players.  The best part, of course, was there at least, I could get these really beautiful boards for fairly cheap.  So I bought a couple and brought them home.  I have to say, my friends loved the boards and it really added to our backgammon play, it just adds another dimension.
Now, I’m not saying you need to fly to some far off location to enhance you backgammon game, but playing a unique backgammon board could be a nice change.  I’ve been looking around lately and have found two alternatives.  One is you can buy nice boards at the stores here or look for them in auctions.  Or you can also play internet backgammon.  There are sites online that let you play all types of backgammon boards; real ones that they downloaded online or imaginary ones that can be crazy and interactive.  Either way, try out unique backgammon board and have fun.