October 7th, 2007 12:20 pm:

“We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned to play chess in Germany with Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. - from an article about interrogation techniques used by the US in WWII. (via Digg)