'"I declare it's marked out just like a large chess-board!" Alice said at last.  "There ought to be some men moving about somewhere - and so there are!" she added in a tone of delight, and her heart began to beat quick with excitement as she went on.  "It's a great huge game of chess that's being played - all over the world- if this is the world at all, you know......if only I might join - though of course I should like to be a Queen, best." ' Lewis Carol  from Through the Looking Glass