STAR TREKMATE
Daily Star Sunday|August 13, 2023
Chess plan to make contact with aliens..
ISOBEL DICKINSON
STAR TREKMATE

SCIENTISTS want to challenge aliens to a game of chess. 

They think it could help us strike up a conversation with little green men.

But the vast distances between the stars mean matches could take hundreds of thousands of years to complete.

This story is from the August 13, 2023 edition of Daily Star Sunday.

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