ARepublican and Herald Pottsville, Pennsylvania Thursday, December 03, 1959
U.S. Artist Offers Space Chess Set as Gift for Khrushchev
American artist Arthur Elliot would like to give President Eisenhower one of his specially-designed space-age chess sets either to keep or present as a gift to Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Elliot, 46, a former U.S. Navy officer, already has given one of his sets to U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, 15, of Brooklyn.
“Now I am offering a set to President Eisenhower for himself, or in case he would like to take it along to Moscow as an example of American imagination and design,” Elliot said.
He said he thought the set “would be an unusual gift for the President to take to Khrushchev” when he goes to Moscow next year.
In Elliot's space-age set, the king is a space station, the queen a space ship, the castle a radar station. The knight is a gracefully-curving representation of an earth satellite with a comet's tail while missiles replaced the bishop and pawns.
Elliot, a native of Philadelphia, lives now in Rome. But he will not be here to see Eisenhower on his arrival Friday. Elliot is leaving Thursday to spend the Christmas holidays with his brother Robert Elliot in Boston.
The Pittsburgh Press Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Thursday, December 03, 1959
American artist Arthur Elliot would like to give President Eisenhower one of his specially-designed space-age chess sets either to keep or present as a gift to Russian Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev.
Mr. Elliot, 46, now living in Rome, has given one of his sets to U.S. chess champion Bobby Fischer, 15, of Brooklyn.
He said he thought the set would be an unusual gift for the President to take along to Moscow next year.
In Mr. Elliot's set, the king is a space station, the queen a space ship and the castle a radar station.
