"I'll make one to give this Feisul boy a hoist" Whoever invented chess understood the world's works as some men know clocks and watches.

He recognized a fact and based a game on it, with the result that his game endures.

And what he clearly recognized was this: That no king matters much as long as your side is playing a winning game.

You can leave your king in his corner then to amuse himself in dignified unimportance.

But the minute you begin to lose, your king becomes a source of anxiety.
In what is called real life (which is only a great game, although a mighty good one) it makes no difference what you call your king.