AThe Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Friday, July 21, 1972 - Page 7
Chess Offered As Viet Move
San Francisco (UPI)— Taking a lead from the success of ping-pong diplomacy, a group billing itself as the nation's first professional chess team has offered its services to President Nixon in an effort to end the Vietnam War.
The Checkmate Chess Club sent a telegram to the President yesterday saying members are willing to go at once to Hanoi and Saigon for a series of exhibition matches with Vietnamese players.
“In your ceaseless efforts to end the war with honor, perhaps a transfer from the battlefield to the chessboard would provide you with an environment more suitable toward bringing about a just conclusion,” the telegram said.
