Isopropyl alcohol to clean wood chess board and piecces?

Does anyone know if isopropyl alcohol is a safe way to sterilize a wood chess board and wood pieces?  I recently ordered a new set and would like to sterilize it when it arrives.

Use soap it's perfect!

Any chemical will ruin wood, finished or not. If you have to play people outside the home you live at and you need to disinfect for covid, get yourself a cheap unweighted plastic set and a silicone or PVC-type chessboard. You can use as much chemicals  as you want to clean those. If they get ruined, buy another. 

What an utterly useless comment. Why did you even reply? I asked my question here because this is chess.com, where people are likely to know everything there is to know about the care and cleaning of chess sets. 

Thank you. But this is winter, and I live in the Midwestern part of the US.  There has been very little sun for several days.

As I said...I have already purchased a set. I ordered a wood set. That is why I asked about cleaning wood sets with alcohol...

Thank you for helping me. I appreciate it that you took the time to reply. Soap it is, then.

IF (and that's a big if) I were going to clean pieces with anything it would be a soap specifically for wood. Something like Murphy's Oil soap

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=wood+soap&ref=nb_sb_noss

Got it. What do you think of Pine Sol?

The need to sterilize Chess pieces you just receive in shipping does not exist from the latest research by the CDC.

The Corona virus is very unstable on surfaces.  They did a study.  They actually went into hospital rooms of people with the active and contagious virus infection.  They took samples from those surfaces and analyzed them.

What they found was only the shell or no longer active or contagious part of the virus.  They came out with these results about a couple of weeks ago.

So, it is not necessary at all to disinfect mail or other shipments.  The virus cannot last long on surfaces at all.

Definitely take some before and after pictures so we can see how badly you ruin your set.

Never underestimate fire as a disinfectant!

Just kidding! Maybe you can go for a 50/50 dilution of vinegar & water; a natural, less aggressive cleaning fluid.

I guess it's just too much to expect very much intelligent commentary or actual help on chess.com. You are an idiot. I hope the "block" feature means I won't be seeing you anymore in this thread. 

Why did you even bother to come here??

Thank you. For various reasons I feel a need to exercise an extreme amount of caution with this virus. Our understanding of it has evolved over time. 

What seems to be missing from this is any idea of what the finish is.  Of all the options, furniture polish is probably the least worst, after all, wooden chess pieces are just like tiny pieces of furniture, but what that would do to a gloss finish is a question.  If the pieces are french polished, a water-based or alcohol-based solution will destroy the finish.  Synthetic lacquers will resist alcohol, but if the piece has been waxed after being finished then a solvent will mess up the wax.  If there is a gap in the finish (a hairline crack for example) then liquid is likely to penetrate and make the crack more visible. This is why vendor advice is usually just to wipe with a soft cloth or a very slightly damp cloth at most.  I agree, washing the pieces in a cleaning solution is more likely than not to damage them.  If the set has spent a week or two in transit there is a vanishingly small probability of viable covid surviving (you're in more danger from going to the shop).  

That appears to be chlorine dissolved in water.  It appears to be weak enough to not be dangerous, but its still water and chlorine.

Wouldn't it be possible if the wood was treated with some water-resistant coating. Wood cutting boards come to mind. Those can be washed in the sink. Also, I clean my wood floors with a Swiffer Wetjet. It doesn't seem to ruin my floors. Also, I bought my chess board from JKCreativeWood from Etsy. This is what they said on their Etsy page:

"*Chess boards & pieces are treated with a water resistant finish—it is acceptable to wipe off chess sets with water as well as lemon oil for dust. NEVER immerse wooden products in water."
Here is the link: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/isopropyl-alcohol-to-clean-wood-chess-board-and-piecces

What do you think?

This isn't about damage to the structure, we don't generally worry about the finish on a chopping board (we hack at them with knives and choppers, by definition), but about the surface finish of a chess piece.  You might treat chess pieces to be water resistant, sure, but why do that as part of the manufacturing process?  Is that whats been done with this set?  Its just not a problem that most people or sets have.  Damage to wood flooring is an interesting and poorly understood subject, the most plausible explanation of cupped floor boards I've seen is that the wood cells on the upper side crush when the floor is washed and the timber expands: but its essentially the same issue as the chopping board, the timber and the finish of wood flooring should be fit for purpose and isn't necessarily what goes in or on a chess piece.  Some chess pieces will have that kind of finish on them and we just don't know in this case which is why what I'd said was qualified and talked in terms of probabilities.  Even the Etsy store you cite says not to get their water resistance treated wooden items too wet, which is going to be a bit unrealistic for salad servers and chopping boards.  A damp cloth and a slight smear of some oil or polish sounds just fine to me.