Chessmen Of Mars

"Jeddak of Manator: the Princesses of each side shall be the
sole stakes and to the suvivors of the winning side shall belong
both the Princesses,to do with as they shall see fit. ... The
squares shall be contested to the death. Just are the laws of
Manator! I have spoken."

Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.