The Game of Chess

...with a galley galley: a low, flat-bottomed ship propelled by oars, common in the Mediterranean and often used by pirates who sailed upon the sea and robbed for many years. And it happened that King Alexander Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE), who served as a common moral example in medieval literature. ordered this robber to be sought and caught. And he was captured and brought before the king.

Then the king asked him why he robbed people upon the sea. He answered him and said: "I rob upon the sea only with one galley, but you rob the world with many great hosts original: "chel," meaning a troop or large group of soldiers. and with many ships. And because of one galley, men call me a robber, and you they call an emperor. And if it were that my fortune original: "gelück," referring here to his social station and luck in life. improved, I would also gladly improve myself; but the more fortune you have, the more wicked you become."

Then Alexander said: "I will change your fortune so that you may not blame fortune for your faults." And he elevated him on the spot, so that he improved himself until he eventually became a prince and a just judge. //

Fifthly, the king should be chaste chaste: here meaning sexually moral and faithful to his marriage vows, such that he should desire no woman in sin, but only the queen. And for this reason, the queen is placed at his left side original: "tencken seiten." In the arrangement of the chessboard, the Queen is placed at the King's side, representing her role as his closest companion.. It is believable that when a king is chaste, truthful, and just, he deserves to beget a son who is like him in these same virtues; for he should not produce offspring who fall away from his noble example.