ASan Antonio Express San Antonio, Texas Sunday, July 16, 1972 - Page 9 — Match Inspires New Chess Game — Nixon-McGovern. Match Inspires New Chess Game. Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago — Chess sets are registering a boost in sales here, thanks to the big match. Not the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky match in Iceland, but the really big one right here at home—the George McGovern—Richard M. Nixon contest.
Nixon and McGovern are represented by the two kings in the game, which is called Chess 72, and Dorothy Ford, assistant manager at Carson-Pirie-Scott and Co., reports, its been selling well. No kidding.
The originator of the game, Marc Howard of Detroit, got the idea in his sleep last November, according to his New York press agent.
That prophetic dream also nominated McGovern as king on the Democratic side, and Howard risked more than $25,000 when he decided to place McGovern's image on the Democratic king and go into production with the sets for delivery to stores in May.
All of the big shots are represented in the set including Hubert H. Humphrey as a bishop, Spiro T. Agnew and John Connally as knights and John Mitchell and Edward M. Kennedy as rooks. Queens are Henry A. Kissinger and Eugene J. McCarthy.
(Caption: Game of the Year. With carved likeness of Sen. George McGovern and President Nixon as kings, a new game called “Chess '72” is making its appearance in Chicago department stores.—AP Wirephoto.
