Manopoulos Chess and Backgammon, which has been in business since 1970, is one of those shops that you're glad still exists. Handcrafted chess and backgammon sets for over 50 years. MANOPOULOS is located just two blocks from Syntagma Square on Voulis Street betweem Ermou and Mitropoleos Streets. Every time I venture into this shop it is filled with well healed customers looking to buy a keepsake. Something they can use and then hand down to the next generation. The Manopoulos Family are artists and their passion for chess and backgammon is addictive. Backgammon, if you didn't know it, is Greece's favorite board game and so pick yourself up one of Manopoulos's beautiful travel sets.