Reply #30: The King In chess, Sir, Is Not The Leader, Only the Symbol

[The Magistrate]

Transposed into strategy, the King stands really for such things as the civilian population, the industrial base, and aghricultural and raw materials base of a combatant side, items that, if under effective threat, the fight cannot be continued without. The real leader in chess is the Queen, which is quite capable of turning the tide on its own.

Political campaigns are contests of morale, in which what communicates to the mass is the fighting spirit of the candidate, and no one can do that for anyone else....