 When interviewed by Mary <unk> of Chess Life in 1985 , owner Irv Cisski said , " So what if games @-@ people turn away business . They add flavor . Chess and Go are assets to a coffeehouse . " The Last Exit was the subject of a 1987 retrospective in The Seattle Times in which Cisski described his intent to " create a haven where students and the benign <unk> " were welcome and where " everyone felt equal and there were no sacred <unk> " . It was later described by Seattle writer and journalist <unk> Berger as 
