Thanks Jim, I'll think about this approach. Certainly seems
reasonable, and somewhat along the lines of my "b" above. BTW, sorry
for the likely confusion above, as I thought I'd inadvertently sent
another email just prior to this one (that at least is probably pretty
obvious...!) The deal in a nutshell is my wife and I just got back
from a trip-of-lifetime that included a few days in Istanbul (boy is
that a cool, crazy place, pretty much as we hoped/expected), home of
backgammon among other things it would seem. I got us one of the
myriad cheap, very pretty sets they sell on the street every 20 feet or
so, and the pieces turned out to be rather too big in diameter to jibe
with the board (i.e. the distance between adjacent "points" on the
board), thus my topic here. Sure glad we missed any of the badness in
London, tho we now believe we may have had an unusual barrel of laughs
at the airport in Frankfurt Germany, related to this unfortunate stuff.
Sure would be cool if the world could get along. Likely compromises
suggested on all sides...

Anyhow, I'll definitely not try to do the whole stack of pieces at
once, for sure. Just looking for some reasonable middle-ground that'll
take 3-4-5 times to do the whole set, you know. Thanks--Charley