ABSTRACT
Why is it that in the game of chess, if the piece called the King is captured, then the game is over-even if there are still many other same-colored chess pieces on the board? Why cannot some other piece take up the King’s role and carry on? One might say, those are the rules of the game. Yet why are those the rules of the game? In what sort of social system does the capture of the King mark the end of the contest and the submission of the King’s forces?
