ABSTRACT

Our publishers produced the cover design and sent it to us for approval. We agreed that chess was probably a very good choice of game to illustrate the kind of game that we had in mind when we suggested the title. We were not seeking to be frivolous by taking a gaming analogy for the career of headship but trying to suggest that this too has its rules, norms, expectations and gambits which are seemingly well-known to a few but quite obscure to the many.