A team of scientists is considering what kind of message should be sent into space in order to establish communication with other life forms. One of their ideas could involve starting a dialogue through a game of chess in order to familiarize extraterrestrials with our form of intelligence. Could a game of chess help us strike up a conversation with an alien life form? A highly serious study conducted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and an international team of researchers has detailed a new model for messaging aliens. The “Beacon in the Galaxy” study draws heavily on the first message wri…